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Theologian consumed by beastly type in chaos (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

muddle

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'chaos' is the definition.
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'theologian consumed by beastly type' is the wordplay.
'theologian' becomes 'dd' (Doctor of Divinity degree).
'consumed by' indicates putting letters inside.
'beastly type' becomes 'mule' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dd' going into 'mule' is 'MUDDLE'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for muddle that I've seen before include "Confusion - mess" , "Clutter" , "Confused mess" , "[OPPOSITE OF] clear" , "Confuse" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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