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Dug under half of shed producing tremor (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shudder

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'tremor' is the definition.
(shuddering is a kind of tremoring)

'dug under half of shed' is the wordplay.
'dug' becomes 'udder' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'under' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'half of' suggests halving the letters.
'shed' halved is 'sh'.
'udder' after 'sh' is 'SHUDDER'.

'producing' is the link.

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(Other definitions for shudder that I've seen before include "Shiver in fear or revulsion" , "Convulse" , "Shake with fear" , "Shiver with horror" , "Tremble through fear" .)

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