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Risk enveloping crazier fellows in confusion (12)

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I believe the answer is:

bewilderment

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'confusion' is the definition.
(bewilderment is a kind of confusion)

'risk enveloping crazier fellows' is the wordplay.
'risk' becomes 'bet'.
'enveloping' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'crazier' becomes 'wilder' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'fellows' becomes 'men' (I've seen this before).
'wilder'+'men'='wildermen'
'bet' going around 'wildermen' is 'BEWILDERMENT'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for bewilderment that I've seen before include "Perplexity, confusion" , "utter confusion!" , "Not knowing what to do" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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