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Demanding individual, possibly sour (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

onerous

'demanding' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'individual possibly sour' is the wordplay.
'individual' becomes 'one' (**).
'possibly' indicates an anagram.
'sour' is an anagram of 'rous'.
'one'+'rous'='ONEROUS'

(Other definitions for onerous that I've seen before include "Challenging" , "Burdensome, heavy kind of duty" , "Involving much effort" , "Involving much work" , "Burdensome as duty may be" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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