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Ludicrous rules essentially a huge lab reforms (9)

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I believe the answer is:

laughable

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

'rules essentially a huge lab reforms' is the wordplay.
'essentially' says to take the centre.
'reforms' indicates anagramming the letters.
The middle letter of 'rules' is 'l'.
'huge'+'lab'='hugelab'
'hugelab' with letters rearranged gives 'ughable'.
'l'+'a'+'ughable'='LAUGHABLE'

(Other definitions for laughable that I've seen before include "comic" , "Risible, ridiculous" , "Ridiculous, derisory" , "Incongruous, inviting ridicule" , "Ludicrous" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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