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Dry and skiddy, oddly? Turned round, creating inconvenience (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disturb

'inconvenience' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'dry and skiddy oddly? turned round' is the wordplay.
'dry' becomes 'brut' (type of wine).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'oddly?' indicates alternate letters (letters in the odd-numbered positions are used).
'turned round' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
The alternating letters of 'skiddy' are 'sid'.
'brut'+'sid'='brutsid'
'brutsid' in reverse letter order is 'DISTURB'.

'creating' is the link.

(Other definitions for disturb that I've seen before include "Interfere with" , "Interrupt; upset" , "inconvenience" , "Ruffle - worry" , "Break" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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