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Excited female ends with fantastic shiver (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

feverish

'excited' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'female ends with fantastic shiver' is the wordplay.
'ends' means to remove the middle letters.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fantastic' is an anagram indicator.
'female' with its centre taken out is 'fe'.
'shiver' anagrammed gives 'verish'.
'fe'+'verish'='FEVERISH'

(Other definitions for feverish that I've seen before include "highly charged" , "frantic" , "restless state" , "Febrile" , "Suffering from a high temperature" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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