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He lacks order and will rise in anger (7)

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I believe the answer is:

hackles

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'anger' is the definition.
(I know that hackles is a type of anger)

'he lacks order' is the wordplay.
'order' is an anagram indicator.
'he'+'lacks'='helacks'
'helacks' with letters rearranged gives 'HACKLES'.

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(Other definitions for hackles that I've seen before include "Hairs on back of an animal's neck - shackle them" , "Shackle with animal neck-hairs" , "Hairs on back of animal's neck, may rise with anger" , "They rise on the angry" .)

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