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Ruled fad out that's awesome (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dreadful

'awesome' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'ruled fad out' is the wordplay.
'out' is an anagram indicator (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'ruled'+'fad'='ruledfad'
'ruledfad' anagrammed gives 'DREADFUL'.

'that's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for dreadful that I've seen before include "Shockingly bad" , "Horrible, shocking" , "Informally very bad, perhaps the weather" , "Appalling, awful" , "Extremely bad or disagreeable" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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