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Girl upset with a troubled soul - how irregular (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anomalous

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

'girl upset with a troubled soul' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'mona' ().
'upset' says the letters should be written backwards.
'with' indicates putting letters inside.
'troubled' is an anagram indicator.
'mona' back-to-front is 'anom'.
'soul' anagrammed gives 'lous'.
'a' going into 'lous' is 'alous'.
'anom'+'alous'='ANOMALOUS'

'how' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for anomalous that I've seen before include "Atypical, exceptional" , "Inconsistent, deviating from the norm" , "Abnormal, irregular" , "Deviating from normal" , "Aberrant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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