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Excited to be designing puzzles? It's traumatic (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

upsetting

'traumatic' is the definition.

'excited to be designing puzzles?' is the wordplay.
'excited' becomes 'up'.
'to be designing puzzles?' becomes 'setting' (as in setting crosswords).
'up'+'setting'='UPSETTING'

'it's' is the link.

(Other definitions for upsetting that I've seen before include "Tipping" , "sad?" , "Likely to put out" , "worrying" , "Distressing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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