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Bad season for litter (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

offspring

'litter' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'bad season' is the wordplay.
'bad' becomes 'off' (I've seen this before).
'season' becomes 'spring' (spring is a kind of season).
'off'+'spring'='OFFSPRING'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for offspring that I've seen before include "Child" , "seed" , "Progeny" , "Children, issue" , "Result" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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