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Clue idiot's rewritten causing anxiety (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

solicitude

'anxiety' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'clue idiot's rewritten' is the wordplay.
'rewritten' indicates anagramming the letters.
'clue'+'idiots'='clueidiots'
'clueidiots' anagrammed gives 'SOLICITUDE'.

'causing' is the link.

(Other definitions for solicitude that I've seen before include "Care, concern" , "Feeling of excessive concern" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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