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Shocked by candid sales review (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scandalised

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'review' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'shocked by candid sales' is the wordplay.
'shocked' indicates an anagram (letters are shocked or disrupted).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'candid'+'sales' is 'candidsales'.
'candidsales' anagrammed gives 'SCANDALISED'.

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