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After endless hassle the night before, one enters in distress (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aggrieve

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'distress' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'after endless hassle the night before' is the wordplay.
'after endless hassle' becomes 'aggri' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the night before' becomes 'eve' (eve can mean the night before something).
'aggri'+'eve'='AGGRIEVE'

'one enters in' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for aggrieve that I've seen before include "Do an injustice to" , "Distress, afflict" , "Pain or injure" , "upset" , "Break the heart" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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