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Calamitous experience carrying disease endlessly spread (9)

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I believe the answer is:

marmalade

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'spread' is the definition.
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'calamitous experience carrying disease endlessly' is the wordplay.
'calamitous experience' becomes 'mare' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'carrying' indicates putting letters inside.
'disease' becomes 'malady' (malady is a kind of health problem).
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'malady' with its final letter taken off is 'malad'.
'mare' enclosing 'malad' is 'MARMALADE'.

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(Other definitions for marmalade that I've seen before include "Preserve made with citrus fruits" , "Kind of cat" , "Eleven's [PRESERVE]" , "group?" , "Spread" .)

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