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Utter fury supporting hospital department (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

entire

'utter' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'fury supporting hospital department' is the wordplay.
'fury' becomes 'ire' (I've seen this before).
'supporting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'hospital department' becomes 'ent'.
'ire' put after 'ent' is 'ENTIRE'.

(Other definitions for entire that I've seen before include "Whole; absolute" , "Envelope" , "in one piece" , "Whole - undamaged" , "Full, intact" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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