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Trouble had upset lovely thing in bed (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dahlia

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'lovely thing in bed' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'trouble had upset' is the wordplay.
'trouble' becomes 'ail' ('ail' can be a synonym of 'trouble').
'upset' says the letters should be written backwards.
'ail'+'had'='ailhad'
'ailhad' in reverse letter order is 'DAHLIA'.

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(Other definitions for dahlia that I've seen before include "Strangely, Ali had this flower" , "Flower genus" , "Showy garden plant" , "'Hi, a lad has the flower (6)'" , "Lia had this flower, strangely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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