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Crush something quickly underfoot – it smells horrible at first (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

squish

'crush' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'something quickly underfoot it smells horrible at first' is the wordplay.
'at first' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'something quickly underfoot it smells horrible' is 'SQUISH'.

(Another definition for squish that I've seen is " Squelch".)

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