Times making retraction in absurd admission of error (2,3)

Times Cryptic #28748 | 7 Down | 2023-10-31
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

BY (times) reversed [making retraction] contained by [in] MAD (absurd). Ghastly expression dating from the late 1980s apparently.

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