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Foolish Icarus, too shocking (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

atrocious

'shocking' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'foolish icarus too' is the wordplay.
'foolish' is an anagram indicator.
'icarus'+'too'='icarustoo'
'icarustoo' anagrammed gives 'ATROCIOUS'.

(Other definitions for atrocious that I've seen before include "Shocking" , "Terrible" , "Extremely wicked" , "Foolish" , "Appallingly bad" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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