Crossword Genius

Book about anger's boring (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tiresome

'boring' is the definition.
('tiresome' can be a synonym of 'boring')

'book about anger's' is the wordplay.
'book' becomes 'tome' (tome is a kind of book).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'anger's' becomes 'ires' ('ire' can be a synonym of 'anger').
'tome' placed around 'ires' is 'TIRESOME'.

(Other definitions for tiresome that I've seen before include "Annoying, being a nuisance" , "Annoying, makes you fed up" , "Exasperating" , "Fatiguing; boring" , "Meteors I find annoying" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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