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Sheepdog with extremes of rascality is mine (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

colliery

'is mine' is the definition.
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'sheepdog with extremes of rascality' is the wordplay.
'sheepdog' becomes 'collie' (collie is a kind of sheepdog).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'extremes of' means to remove the middle letters.
'rascality' with its middle taken out is 'ry'.
'collie'+'ry'='COLLIERY'

(Other definitions for colliery that I've seen before include "Grimethorpe?" , "Coal mine" , "Where a coalminer goes to work" , "Mining complex" , "Coalmine and surrounding buildings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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