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Out-and-out guarantee leader’s been ousted (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arrant

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'out-and-out' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'guarantee leader's been ousted' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'been' could be 'ran' (running is a kind of being) and 'ran' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'art' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for arrant that I've seen before include "'Complete, stark (6)'" , "Utter and extreme, maybe nonsense" , "Out-and-out, utter" , "Downright - notorious" , "Blatant" .)

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