Wrong? French department's suffering with pretty random marking (13)

Independent Cryptic #11766 | 22 Across | 2024-06-26
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

TORT (legal term for a wrong action or inaction) + OISE’S (belonging to Oise, a department, or administrative region, in the north of France: département in French) + HELL (suffering). The appearance of polished slices of a tortoise’s shell (a random pattern in shades of brown and orange), or something resembling it (such as a cat’s fur).

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