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Attractive type cut hair, upset (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

distress

'upset' is the definition.
(distressing is a kind of upseting)

'attractive type cut hair' is the wordplay.
'attractive type' becomes 'dish' (informal term for an attractive person).
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'hair' becomes 'tress' (tress is a kind of hair).
'dish' with its final letter taken away is 'dis'.
'dis'+'tress'='DISTRESS'

(Other definitions for distress that I've seen before include "Peril" , "Pressure of pain or sorrow" , "Affliction" , "Such a signal indicates trouble" , "Unhappiness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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