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Full development? I may trust to ignore son misbehaving (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

maturity

'full development?' is the definition.
(mature means fully developed)

'i may trust to ignore son misbehaving' is the wordplay.
'to ignore' suggests deleting specific letters.
'son' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation for son).
'misbehaving' indicates an anagram.
'i'+'may'+'trust'='imaytrust'
'imaytrust' with 's' taken away is 'imaytrut'.
'imaytrut' is an anagram of 'MATURITY'.

(Other definitions for maturity that I've seen before include "Ripeness" , "Full-grown state" , "age" , "Fool" , "State of full growth or adulthood" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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