Mafia boss told off regularly during rally (9)
I believe the answer is:
godfather
'mafia boss' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'told off regularly during rally' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'rally' becomes 'gather' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'told'+'off'='toldoff'
The alternate letters of 'toldoff' are 'odf'.
'odf' put within 'gather' is 'GODFATHER'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for godfather that I've seen before include "He's a sponsor at Baptism" , "He sponsors a child at baptism" , "Mafia head" , "Mafia boss" , "Mafia chief or spiritual parent" .)