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Being gutless, meddle with Bowie's arrangement (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disemboweled

'being gutless' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, past participle verbs and adjectives can occasionally define each other.

'meddle with bowie's arrangement' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'arrangement' indicates anagramming the letters.
'meddle'+'bowies'='meddlebowies'
'meddlebowies' is an anagram of 'DISEMBOWELED'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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