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Sounding drunk, Ms Merkel’s not quite square? (11)

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I believe the answer is:

rectangular

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'square?' is the definition.
('rectangular' can be similar in meaning to 'square')

'sounding drunk ms' is the wordplay.
'sounding' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'drunk' becomes 'wrecked'.
'ms' becomes 'angular' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'wrecked' sounds like 'rect'.
'rect'+'angular'='RECTANGULAR'

'merkel's not quite' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for rectangular that I've seen before include "Oblong" , "A four-shaped, perhaps" , "Of a right-angled parallelogram" , "to be at ninety degrees" , "flag, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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