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Facial tan treatment is extreme (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fanatical

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

'facial tan treatment' is the wordplay.
'treatment' indicates anagramming the letters (letters treated or processed differently).
'facial'+'tan'='facialtan'
'facialtan' with letters rearranged gives 'FANATICAL'.

'is' is the link.

(Other definitions for fanatical that I've seen before include "Mad" , "Excessively zealous" , "Unreasonably zealous" , "Extreme" , "Over-zealous" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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