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President Mao angered, having been done (12)

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I believe the answer is:

impersonated

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'done' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with creating things as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'president mao angered having been' is the wordplay.
'president mao' can be anagrammed to 'IMPERSONATED'.
Though, I am unsure how the anagram is indicated.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for impersonated that I've seen is " Pretended to be (someone)".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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