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Disturb the girl's hair

Ross

I believe the answer is:

distress

'disturb' is the definition.
(distressing is a kind of disturbing)

'the girl's hair' is the wordplay.
'the girl's' becomes 'dis' (Di is short for Diana).
'hair' becomes 'tress' (tress is a kind of hair).
'dis'+'tress'='DISTRESS'

(Other definitions for distress that I've seen before include "grief" , "Cause mental pain" , "Deep anxiety" , "State of anxiety or woe" , "State of suffering" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Independent.
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