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Trained bear helping to show eccentricity (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aberration

'eccentricity' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'trained bear helping' is the wordplay.
'trained' indicates anagramming the letters (to train can mean to grow something into a shape).
'helping' becomes 'ration' (a ration is a serving or helping).
'bear' is an anagram of 'aber'.
'aber'+'ration'='ABERRATION'

'to show' is the link.

(Other definitions for aberration that I've seen before include "irregularity" , "Slip" , "Anomaly -- a Breton air (anag)" , "Deviation from normality" , "Straying" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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