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God's personal assistant getting very upset (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

osiris

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'god's' is the definition.
(Egyptian god)

'personal assistant getting very upset' is the wordplay.
'personal assistant' becomes 'iris' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'getting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'very' becomes 'so' (both can mean 'extremely').
'upset' says the letters should be written backwards.
'so' reversed gives 'os'.
'iris' after 'os' is 'OSIRIS'.

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(Other definitions for osiris that I've seen before include "Egyptian god of the dead" , "once highly esteemed by Egyptians" , "Egyptian deity" , "underworld boss" , "one held to be divine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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