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Salacious publicity routine reshaped, leaving nothing out (8)

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I believe the answer is:

prurient

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'salacious' is the definition.
(I know that salacious can be written as prurient)

'publicity routine reshaped leaving nothing out' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'publicity' could be 'pr' (abbreviation for public relations) and 'pr' is found within the answer.
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(Other definitions for prurient that I've seen before include "rather too interested in sex" , "Having sexual and lustful thoughts" , "Turn ripe (anag) - lewd" , "nastily obsessive" , "Morbidly interested in sexual matters" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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