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Salesperson encountered rising anger (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

temper

'anger' is the definition.
(I know that temper is a type of annoyance)

'salesperson encountered rising' is the wordplay.
'salesperson' becomes 'rep' (sales rep).
'encountered' becomes 'met' ('meet' can be a synonym of 'encounter').
'rising' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (going up in a down clue).
'rep'+'met'='repmet'
'repmet' written backwards gives 'TEMPER'.

(Other definitions for temper that I've seen before include "Volatile anger - don't lose it" , "Fit of anger - don't lose it" , "Angry state of mind" , "Frame of mind" , "Bad humour" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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