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Extremely popular digging tools (2,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

in spades

'extremely' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'popular digging tools' is the wordplay.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'digging tools' becomes 'spades'.
'in'+'spades'='IN SPADES'

(Other definitions for in spades that I've seen before include "Woman's garment" , "to a great extent" , "Not half!" , "to a large degree" , "Emphatically" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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