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Extremely corrosive substance brought up during a meeting (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

radically

'extremely' is the definition.
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'corrosive substance brought up during a meeting' is the wordplay.
'corrosive substance' becomes 'acid' (I've seen this in another clue).
'brought up' says the letters should be written in reverse (in a down clue, letters go up).
'during' is an insertion indicator.
'a meeting' becomes 'rally' (I have seen 'Mass meeting ' mean 'rally' so perhaps 'meeting' could also mean 'rally').
'acid' reversed gives 'dica'.
'dica' placed into 'rally' is 'RADICALLY'.

(Other definitions for radically that I've seen before include "Fundamentally" , "seriously" , "in a serious way" , "Essentially" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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