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Edward tours the kingdom getting drastically treated! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nuked

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'drastically treated' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'edward tours the kingdom' is the wordplay.
'edward' becomes 'Ned'.
'tours' is an insertion indicator (to tour can mean to go around).
'the kingdom' becomes 'UK' (UK is an example).
'ned' going around 'uk' is 'NUKED'.

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for nuked that I've seen before include "Used bombs" , "zapped into oblivion?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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