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Physicist badly hurt internally very cross (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rutherford

'physicist' is the definition.
(Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937 nuclear physicist)

'badly hurt internally very cross' is the wordplay.
'badly' indicates an anagram.
'internally' indicates the central letters.
'cross' becomes 'ford' (fording is a kind of crossing**).
The middle letters of 'very' are 'er'.
'hurt' is an anagram of 'ruth'.
'ruth'+'er'+'ford'='RUTHERFORD'

(Other definitions for rutherford that I've seen before include "Den" , "Scientist" , "Actress" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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