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Foreign cousin’s reserve suppressing an air of carelessness (11)

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I believe the answer is:

insouciance

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'air of carelessness' is the definition.
'insouciance' can be an answer for 'carelessness' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'air of' bit.

'foreign cousin's reserve suppressing an' is the wordplay.
'foreign' indicates an anagram (foreign order of the letters).
'reserve' becomes 'ice' (both can mean aloofness).
'suppressing' indicates putting letters inside.
'ice' enclosing 'an' is 'iance'.
'cousin' with letters rearranged gives 'insouc'.
'insouc'+'iance'='INSOUCIANCE'

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(Other definitions for insouciance that I've seen before include "Casual unconcern" , "Lack of concern" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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