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Cry of pain, being nastily set about at school (5)

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I believe the answer is:

stowe

'school' is the definition.

'cry of pain being nastily set about' is the wordplay.
'cry of pain' becomes 'ow' (exclamation of pain).
'being nastily' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'set' with letters rearranged gives 'ste'.
'ow' placed into 'ste' is 'STOWE'.

'at' acts as a link.

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