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Furious corsair loses head (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

irate

'furious' is the definition.
(I know that furious can be written as irate)

'corsair loses head' is the wordplay.
'corsair' becomes 'pirate' (I've seen this before).
'loses head' means to remove the first letter.
'pirate' with its first letter taken away is 'IRATE'.

(Other definitions for irate that I've seen before include "having got in wax" , "will be up in arms" , "Wild" , "Angry and incensed" , "Fuming" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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