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Disturb American soldier in a gallery (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

agitate

'disturb' is the definition.
(I know that disturb can be written as agitate)

'american soldier in a gallery' is the wordplay.
'american soldier' becomes 'GI' (informal term for a US soldier).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'a'+'tate'='atate'
'gi' put within 'atate' is 'AGITATE'.

(Other definitions for agitate that I've seen before include "Stir; tie a tag (anag.)" , "Disturb or shake" , "Disturb or stir up" , "Stir vigorously" , "Disturb, cause to worry" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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