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Got mixed up with Ted Lang (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tangled

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'got' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'mixed up with ted lang' is the wordplay.
'mixed up' indicates anagramming the letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'ted' next to 'lang' is 'tedlang'.
'tedlang' anagrammed gives 'TANGLED'.

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(Other definitions for tangled that I've seen before include "Knotted" , "All twisted together" , "''Oh what a ... web we weave / when first we practise to deceive'' (Walter Scott)" , "Knotty; snarled" , "Complex" .)

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