Right bonkers theories use persuasive language (9)
I believe the answer is:
rhetorise
'use persuasive language' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'right bonkers theories' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'theories' is 'hetorise' which is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
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