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Rising and falling like a woman in extremes of turmoil! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tidal

'rising and falling' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a woman in extremes of turmoil' is the wordplay.
'a woman' becomes 'ida' ().
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'extremes of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'turmoil' with its middle removed is 'tl'.
'ida' placed within 'tl' is 'TIDAL'.

'like' is the link.

(Other definitions for tidal that I've seen before include "Like waves" , "To do with movement of seas" , "Pertaining to rise and fall of the sea" , "Relating to ocean surges" , "Subject to ebb and flow" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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