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Bony with a collapsed lung and a touch of rheumatism (7)

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I believe the answer is:

angular

'bony' is the definition.
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'a collapsed lung and a touch of rheumatism' is the wordplay.
'collapsed' is an anagram indicator.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'touch of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'rheumatism' is 'r'.
'lung' anagrammed gives 'ngul'.
'a'+'ngul'+'a'+'r'='ANGULAR'

'with' is the link.

(Other definitions for angular that I've seen before include "With prominent bone structure" , "Bony, awkward" , "Having sharp edges or corners" , "Bony - lean - gaunt" , "Having sharp corners, lacking curves or smoothness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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