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Necessarily poor and incomplete? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

needfully

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'necessarily' is the definition.
(I know that necessarily can be written as needfully)

'poor and incomplete?' is the wordplay.
'poor' becomes 'needful' (I've seen this before).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'incomplete?' becomes 'ly' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'needful'+'ly'='NEEDFULLY'

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(Another definition for needfully that I've seen is " Necessarily".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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