Summon back to city demonstrating ludicrous change (8)

Times Cryptic #29024 | 1 Across | 2024-09-17
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BATH (city) then CITE (summon) reversed [back]. SOED: bathos – (of rhetoric) ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace.

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