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European wearing no pants (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

norwegian

'european' is the definition.
(I know that Norwegian is a type of european)

'wearing no pants' is the wordplay.
'pants' indicates anagramming the letters (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'wearing'+'no'='wearingno'
'wearingno' with letters rearranged gives 'NORWEGIAN'.

(Other definitions for norwegian that I've seen before include "Native to, eg, Oslo" , "Northerner" , "From Oslo, perhaps" , "1 in 21 [OSLO] possibly" , "like King Harald I" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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