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Answer for the clue "Radical outed American devoted to his job? ", 7 letters:
duteous

Word definitions for duteous in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) obsequious; submissively obedient.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: dutiful ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duteous \Du"te*ous\, a. [From Duty .] Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter. Subservient; obsequious. Duteous to the vices of thy mistress. ...

Usage examples of duteous.

To his parents, we are apt to say, he endears himself by his pious attachment and duteous care still more than by the connexions of nature.

But now her judgment, instead of being controlled by duteous devotion, was made active by the imbittering discovery that in her past union there had lurked the hidden alienation of secrecy and suspicion.