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Flinch (5)

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'flinch' is the definition.
(I know that flinch can be written as quail)

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(Other definitions for quail that I've seen before include "Cower before the game-bird?" , "recoil with fear" , "Show fear - of small game bird?" , "Shrink; a bird" , "Small bird of the partridge family" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Telegraph, The Independent, the Newsday and the Penny Press.
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