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New Age, tortuous, time wasted: intolerable! (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

outrageous

'intolerable' is the definition.
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'new age tortuous time wasted' is the wordplay.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'wasted' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'age'+'tortuous'='agetortuous'
'agetortuous' with 't' taken out is 'ageortuous'.
'ageortuous' anagrammed gives 'OUTRAGEOUS'.

(Other definitions for outrageous that I've seen before include "Shocking" , "Exorbitant" , "undignified" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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