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Scruffy type’s anxiety meeting councillor in broadcast (9)

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I believe the answer is:

scarecrow

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'councillor in broadcast' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'scruffy type's anxiety meeting' is the wordplay.
'scruffy type' becomes 'crow' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'anxiety' becomes 'scare' (scare is a kind of anxiety).
'meeting' says to put letters next to each other.
'crow' after 'scare' is 'SCARECROW'.

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(Other definitions for scarecrow that I've seen before include "Batman villain" , "6 [FRIEND OF DOROTHY]" , "shabby one" , "Farm field figure" , "scruff" .)

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