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Met base, heartless, insane gangster (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yardie

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'gangster' is the definition.
(yardie is a kind of gangster)

'met base heartless insane' is the wordplay.
'met' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'base' becomes 'yard' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'heartless' means to remove the middle letters.
'insane' with its middle removed is 'ie'.
'yard' put next to 'ie' is 'YARDIE'.

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(Other definitions for yardie that I've seen before include "Gangster (originally Jamaican)" , "West Indian gangster" , "West Indian gang member" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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