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Leave unfinished line about king being eccentric (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

quirky

'eccentric' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'leave unfinished line about king' is the wordplay.
'leave unfinished' becomes 'qui' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'line' becomes 'ry' (abbreviation for railway).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'king' becomes 'k'.
'ry' enclosing 'k' is 'rky'.
'qui'+'rky'='QUIRKY'

'being' is the link.

(Other definitions for quirky that I've seen before include "Idiosyncratic" , "'Kinky, off-beat (6)'" , "Peculiar in behaviour" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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