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Find outskirts of Langley weird (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unearthly

'weird' is the definition.
(I know that weird can be written as unearthly)

'find outskirts of langley' is the wordplay.
'find' becomes 'unearth' (unearthing is a kind of finding).
'outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only letters on the outskirts).
'langley' with its middle taken out is 'ly'.
'unearth'+'ly'='UNEARTHLY'

(Other definitions for unearthly that I've seen before include "Mysterious and disturbing" , "H G Wells's invaders appeared?" , "Sunny" , "Preposterous" , "Not of this world, supernatural" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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