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Careless type playing with fire gets burnt (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

butterfingers

'careless type' is the definition.

'playing with fire gets burnt' is the wordplay.
'playing' indicates an anagram.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fire'+'gets'='firegets'
'firegets' put next to 'burnt' is 'firegetsburnt'.
'firegetsburnt' is an anagram of 'BUTTERFINGERS'.

(Other definitions for butterfingers that I've seen before include "Someone always dropping catches" , "Someone who drops things" , "Bad catcher" , "Clumsy type" , "Person continually dropping things" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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