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Is losing first hair? Editor's anxious (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stressed

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

'is losing first hair? editor's' is the wordplay.
'losing first' means to remove the first letter.
'hair?' becomes 'tress' (tress is a kind of hair**).
'editor' becomes 'ed'.
'is' with its initial letter taken off is 's'.
's'+'tress'+'ed'='STRESSED'

(Other definitions for stressed that I've seen before include "Subjected to strain or emphasised." , "Strained or emphasised" , "Placed emphasis on" , "Emphasized or strained" , "Accented, underlined" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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