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Wild dandy time blown to bits (9)

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I believe the answer is:

dynamited

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'blown to bits' is the definition.
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'wild dandy time' is the wordplay.
'wild' indicates anagramming the letters.
'dandy'+'time'='dandytime'
'dandytime' is an anagram of 'DYNAMITED'.

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