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Beastly sound a pub outside is responsible for (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inhuman

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'beastly' is the definition.
(as opposed to human)

'sound a pub outside is responsible for' is the wordplay.
'sound' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'a pub' becomes 'inn' (an inn is a type of pub).
'outside' means one lot of letters go next to another (outside can mean adjacent to).
'is responsible for' becomes 'human' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'inn' sounds like 'in'.
'in'+'human'='INHUMAN'

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(Other definitions for inhuman that I've seen before include "barbarous and brutal" , "diabolical ..." , "Beastly" , "Callously cruel" , "Cruel, bestial" .)

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