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Pleasure-seeker's complaint involving a bad back (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gadabout

'pleasure-seeker's' is the definition.
(gadabout can mean a pleasure-seeker)

'complaint involving a bad back' is the wordplay.
'complaint' becomes 'gout' (gout is a kind of disease).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'back' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'bad' back-to-front is 'dab'.
'a'+'dab'='adab'
'gout' going around 'adab' is 'GADABOUT'.

(Other definitions for gadabout that I've seen before include "restless type" , "Person who wanders aimlessly in search of pleasure" , "Restless seeker after amusement" , "restless sort" , "Rover" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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