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Complaint as yours truly organised sales (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

measles

'complaint' is the definition.
(measles is a kind of disease)

'yours truly organised sales' is the wordplay.
'yours truly' becomes 'me'.
'organised' indicates anagramming the letters.
'sales' with letters rearranged gives 'asles'.
'me'+'asles'='MEASLES'

'as' is the link.

(Other definitions for measles that I've seen before include "Morbilli is technical term for this illness" , "Ailment" , "Contagious disease in children" , "Childhood viral disease" , "I appear as 8 [RASH]" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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