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Comedy not half seen: Everyman's suppressing tantrum over IT, getting aggressive (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

competitive

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'aggressive' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'comedy not half seen everyman's' is the wordplay.
'not half' means to take half the letters.
'seen' becomes 'petit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'everyman's' becomes 'I've' (where the crossword setter is 'Everyman').
'comedy' halved is 'com'.
'com'+'petit'+'ive'='COMPETITIVE'

'suppressing tantrum over it getting' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Another definition for competitive that I've seen is " Combative, vying".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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