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Stuck for some means of identification? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

labelled

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'stuck for' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'some means of identification?' is the wordplay.
'some means' becomes 'label' (I have seen 'Means of identifying' mean 'label' so perhaps 'means' could also mean 'label').
'of identification?' becomes 'led' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'label'+'led'='LABELLED'

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(Other definitions for labelled that I've seen before include "Assigned a category" , "Categorised; tagged" , "Described" , "Identified" , "Attached a tag to" .)

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