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Personal identity of felons roaming around England (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oneself

'personal identity' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'felons roaming around england' is the wordplay.
'roaming' indicates an anagram.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'england' becomes 'e'.
'felons' anagrammed gives 'oneslf'.
'oneslf' placed around 'e' is 'ONESELF'.

'of' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for oneself that I've seen before include "Lose fen (anag)" , "Reflexive pronoun" , "Personal pronoun" , "Introvert's study" , "personally" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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