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Certain brats, being naughty, who won't think straight? (12)

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scatterbrain

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'won't think straight?' is the definition.
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'certain brats being naughty' is the wordplay.
'being naughty' is an anagram indicator.
'certain'+'brats'='certainbrats'
'certainbrats' is an anagram of 'SCATTERBRAIN'.

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(Other definitions for scatterbrain that I've seen before include "Person incapable of concentration" , "One who cannot concentrate" , "butterfly" , "I'll forget" , "Dippy type" .)

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