Sexed-up face of obnoxious jerk is consumed by rampant lust (10)

Independent Cryptic #12205 | 3 Down | 2025-11-20
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

[ O <bnoxious> (“face of” means first letter only) + TIC (=jerk, twitch)] in ERISED (DESIRE=lust; “rampant (=rearing, as in heraldry)” indicates vertical reversal)

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