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Free from extremes of riffraff, I do go inside (3,2)

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I believe the answer is:

rid of

'free from' is the definition.
(to rid someone of a thing is to free them from it)

'extremes of riffraff i do go inside' is the wordplay.
'extremes of' suggests removing the centre.
'do go' becomes 'do' (doing is a kind of going).
'inside' indicates putting letters inside.
'riffraff' with its middle taken out is 'rf'.
'i'+'do'='ido'
'rf' going around 'ido' is 'RID OF'.

(Another definition for rid of that I've seen is " Free from".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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