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Waterlogged planet hastily evacuated (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

marshy

'waterlogged' is the definition.
(I know that waterlogged can be written as marshy)

'planet hastily evacuated' is the wordplay.
'planet' becomes 'mars' (Mars is a planet).
'evacuated' means to remove the middle letters (internal letters are evacuated from the word).
'hastily' with its middle taken out is 'hy'.
'mars'+'hy'='MARSHY'

(Other definitions for marshy that I've seen before include "Damp and low-lying" , "Like swamps" , "Wet and low-lying" , "Boggy; waterlogged" , "like Slough" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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