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Makes sense of surprising realisations (12)

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I believe the answer is:

rationalises

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'makes sense' is the definition.
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'surprising realisations' is the wordplay.
'surprising' indicates anagramming the letters.
'realisations' is an anagram of 'RATIONALISES'.

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