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Sent crazy by other claims on your attention? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

distracted

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'sent crazy by other claims' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'on your attention?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'attention?' could be 'act' (attention is a kind of act) and 'act' is found in the answer.
'on' could be 're' ('on' can be mean 'with reference to') and 're' is present in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for distracted that I've seen before include "Troubled - ID card test (anag)" , "Diverted (attention) from (something)" , "Preoccupied" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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