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Mean enough to put learner in great unhappiness (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

miserly

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'mean' is the definition.
(mean can mean miserly or ungenerous)

'enough to put learner in great unhappiness' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'learner' could be 'l' (as in a learner driver with L-plates on their car) and 'l' is found within the answer.
'unhappiness' could be 'misery' (misery is a kind of unhappiness) and 'misery' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for miserly that I've seen before include "Mean, tight" , "Parsimonious" , "Niggardly" , "Stingy" , "Paltry" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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