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Oddly, such waffle by Democrat is made unintelligible (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scrambled

'made unintelligible' is the definition.
(as in scrambling a radio message)

'oddly such waffle by democrat' is the wordplay.
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters (letters in odd-numbered positions).
'waffle' becomes 'ramble' (both can mean to go on talking).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
The alternating letters of 'such' are 'sc'.
'sc'+'ramble'+'d'='SCRAMBLED'

'is' is the link.

(Other definitions for scrambled that I've seen before include "Taken off immediately" , "Made electronic messages unintelligible" , "quickly sent flying" , "Made a broadcast signal unintelligible" , "Thrown together in a disorderly fashion" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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