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Unwieldy reforms galore holding minister back (9)

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I believe the answer is:

overlarge

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'unwieldy' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'reforms galore holding minister back' is the wordplay.
'reforms' indicates anagramming the letters.
'holding' indicates putting letters inside.
'minister' becomes 'rev' (short for Reverend, a church minister).
'back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'rev' reversed gives 'ver'.
'galore' with letters rearranged gives 'olarge'.
'olarge' placed around 'ver' is 'OVERLARGE'.

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(Other definitions for overlarge that I've seen before include "Too great" , "not as small as required?" , "more than enough" , "not the right size" , "Titanic" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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