Crossword Genius

Complexity confounded any critic (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

intricacy

'complexity' is the definition.
(intricacy is a kind of complexity)

'confounded any critic' is the wordplay.
'confounded' indicates anagramming the letters.
'any'+'critic'='anycritic'
'anycritic' anagrammed gives 'INTRICACY'.

(Other definitions for intricacy that I've seen before include "Detailed complexity" , "Complication" , "Complexity of detail" .)

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