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Bent on being bad (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crooked

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'bent' is the definition.
(crooking is a kind of bending)

'being bad' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'being' could be 'crook' (crook is a kind of being) and 'crook' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ed' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'on' is the link.

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(Other definitions for crooked that I've seen before include "Criminal" , "Bent; dishonest" , "Misshapen" , "Not straight or aligned" , "Warped" .)

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