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Rebels imprisoning family with son showing dangerous attitude (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

riskiness

'dangerous attitude' is the definition.

'rebels imprisoning family with son' is the wordplay.
'rebels' becomes 'rises' ('rise' can be a synonym of 'rebel'**).
'imprisoning' indicates putting letters inside.
'family' becomes 'kin' ('kin' can be a synonym of 'family').
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'son' becomes 's'.
'rises' going around 'kin' is 'riskines'.
'riskines'+'s'='RISKINESS'

'showing' acts as a link.

(Another definition for riskiness that I've seen is " Level of danger".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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