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High rates with invoice, which is gutting (12)

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I believe the answer is:

evisceration

'is gutting' is the definition.
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'high rates with invoice' is the wordplay.
'high' indicates anagramming the letters (can mean drunk or on drugs and hence disordered).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'rates' put after 'invoice' is 'invoicerates'.
'invoicerates' anagrammed gives 'EVISCERATION'.

'which' is the link.

(Another definition for evisceration that I've seen is " Disembowelling".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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