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Angry gutted idolater judged about sex (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

irritated

'angry' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'gutted idolater judged about sex' is the wordplay.
'gutted' suggests removing the centre (to gut something is to remove its insides).
'judged' becomes 'rated' (rating is a kind of judging).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'sex' becomes 'it' (common euphemism).
'idolater' with its middle taken out is 'ir'.
'rated' going around 'it' is 'ritated'.
'ir'+'ritated'='IRRITATED'

(Other definitions for irritated that I've seen before include "rubbed up the wrong way" , "Cross" , "Irked" , "put out" , "Ratty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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