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Generally liked turning up in the style of a bear (7)

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I believe the answer is:

popular

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'generally liked' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'turning up in the style of a bear' is the wordplay.
'turning' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'style of a bear' becomes 'polar' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'up' backwards is 'pu'.
'pu' placed into 'polar' is 'POPULAR'.

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(Other definitions for popular that I've seen before include "Demotic" , "Trendy" , "Democratic - of general appeal" , "Hot" , "Widely admired" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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