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Offend stranger playing with small son (10)

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I believe the answer is:

transgress

'offend' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'stranger playing with small son' is the wordplay.
'playing with' indicates anagramming the letters.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'son' becomes 's'.
'stranger' anagrammed with 's' makes 'transgres'.
'transgres'+'s'='TRANSGRESS'

(Other definitions for transgress that I've seen before include "misbehave" , "Cause offence" , "Break (limit, law)" , "Commit a sin" , "Overstep, exceed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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