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Look in to restrain son being obnoxious (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loathsome

'obnoxious' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'look in to restrain son' is the wordplay.
'look' becomes 'lo'.
'in' becomes 'athome' ('at home' can be similar in meaning to 'in'**).
'to restrain' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'son' becomes 's'.
'athome' going around 's' is 'athsome'.
'lo'+'athsome'='LOATHSOME'

'being' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for loathsome that I've seen before include "15 [ABHORRENT]" , "Detestable" , "gross" , "Hateful" , "Disgusting, nauseating" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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