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Starting to vent anger about a drawback for a slanting line? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

virgule

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'slanting line?' is the definition.
'virgule' can be an answer for 'line?' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'slanting' bit.

'starting to vent anger about a drawback for a' is the wordplay.
'starting to' suggests taking the first letters.
'anger' becomes 'ire' (ire is intense rage).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a drawback' says the letters should be written backwards.
'for a' becomes 'lug' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
The first letter of 'vent' is 'v'.
'lug' in reverse letter order is 'gul'.
'ire' enclosing 'gul' is 'irgule'.
'v'+'irgule'='VIRGULE'

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(Another definition for virgule that I've seen is " Punctuation mark of a slanting line".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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