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Student wearing crumpled dickey follows head of waitresses with bad intentions (8)

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wickedly

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'student wearing crumpled dickey follows head of waitresses with bad intentions' is the definition.
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'student wearing crumpled dickey follows head of waitresses' is the wordplay.
'student' becomes 'l' (as in L-plates for learner drivers).
'wearing' indicates putting letters inside.
'crumpled' indicates anagramming the letters.
'follows' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'head of' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'waitresses' is 'w'.
'dickey'+'w'='dickeyw'
'dickeyw' anagrammed gives 'wickedy'.
'l' placed into 'wickedy' is 'WICKEDLY'.

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(Other definitions for wickedly that I've seen before include "In evil fashion" , "Terribly" , "In a mischievous way" , "In an evil manner" , "Spitefully" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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