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Moving a book around disturbed a lion (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emotional

'moving' is the definition.
(moving can mean very emotional)

'a book around disturbed a lion' is the wordplay.
'a book' becomes 'tome' (a tome is a book).
'around' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'disturbed' is an anagram indicator (the order of letters is disturbed).
'tome' backwards is 'emot'.
'a'+'lion'='alion'
'alion' with letters rearranged gives 'ional'.
'emot'+'ional'='EMOTIONAL'

(Other definitions for emotional that I've seen before include "tear-jerking" , "Showing strong feelings" , "Loving" , "Arousing strong feeling" , "gushing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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