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Given a blast, he'd be put out, just too upset! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hooted

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'given a blast' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'he'd be put out just too upset' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'too' is 'oot' which is present in the answer.
'he'd' could be 'hed' and 'hed' is found in the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for hooted that I've seen before include "Laughed like an owl" , "Uttered the sound of an owl" , "Blew car horn, or made owl sound" , "Laughed loudly" , "Made cry like owl or sounded horn" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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