Fault in hinge worsening finally, noise coming from behind stable door? (8)

I believe the answer is:

neighing

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'fault in hinge worsening finally noise coming from behind stable door?' is the definition.
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'fault in hinge worsening finally' is the wordplay.
'fault' is an anagram indicator (a faulty spelling).
'finally' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'worsening' is 'g'.
'in'+'hinge'='inhinge'
'inhinge' anagrammed gives 'neighin'.
'neighin'+'g'='NEIGHING'

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(Other definitions for neighing that I've seen before include "Whinnying" , "Making the sound of a horse" , "Sound of punch maybe" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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