Excited by an extraordinary tale with a contrived ending (6)

I believe the answer is:

elated

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'excited' is the definition.
(elating is a kind of exciting)

'an extraordinary tale with a contrived ending' is the wordplay.
'an extraordinary' indicates anagramming the letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a contrived ending' becomes 'ed' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tale' with letters rearranged gives 'elat'.
'elat'+'ed'='ELATED'

'by' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for elated that I've seen before include "Intensely happy" , "Exultant" , "Overjoyed, happy and excited" , "Thrilled" , "Ecstatically happy" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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