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Madness of Dane, with time, deranged (8)

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I believe the answer is:

dementia

'madness' is the definition.
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'dane with time deranged' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'deranged' indicates an anagram.
'dane'+'time'='danetime'
'danetime' with letters rearranged gives 'DEMENTIA'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dementia that I've seen before include "Detain me, having disease of old age" , "Chronic memory failure" , "Detain me in distressed state of old age" , "Disorder of mental processes caused by brain disease" , "Persistent mental disorder, perhaps due to age" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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