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Difficult individual to wake? Not entirely (7)

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I believe the answer is:

onerous

'difficult' is the definition.
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'individual to wake? not entirely' is the wordplay.
'individual' becomes 'one' (**).
'to wake?' becomes 'rouse' (I've seen this before).
'not entirely' means to remove the last letter.
'rouse' with its last letter taken away is 'rous'.
'one'+'rous'='ONEROUS'

(Other definitions for onerous that I've seen before include "Oppressive, difficult to bear" , "Burdensome as duty may be" , "Burdensome, taxing" , "Burdensome, heavy kind of duty" , "'Burdensome, not easily borne (7)'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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