True, extremely adorable — it’s designed as detailed (10)

I believe the answer is:

elaborated

'detailed' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'true extremely adorable it's designed' is the wordplay.
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters.
'it's designed' indicates anagramming the letters (designed with the letters).
'true' with its centre taken out is 'te'.
'te'+'adorable'='teadorable'
'teadorable' is an anagram of 'ELABORATED'.

'as' acts as a link.

(Another definition for elaborated that I've seen is " Added detail to (an account)".)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.

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