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Centipede makes Hart droop, doctor! (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arthropod

'centipede' is the definition.
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'makes hart droop doctor' is the wordplay.
'makes' indicates an anagram.
'doctor' indicates an anagram.
'hart' with letters rearranged gives 'arth'.
'droop' is an anagram of 'ropod'.
'arth'+'ropod'='ARTHROPOD'

(Other definitions for arthropod that I've seen before include "Such as a crustacean or spider" , "worker, perhaps" , "One has external skeleton" , "Invertebrate" , "spider, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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