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Fly low with nobody on board (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mosquito

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'fly' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'low with nobody on board' is the wordplay.
'low' becomes 'moo' (both can mean to make a cow noise).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'nobody on board' becomes 'squit' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'moo' going around 'squit' is 'MOSQUITO'.

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(Other definitions for mosquito that I've seen before include "Disease-carrying insect" , "Insect, the female of which sucks blood" , "Plane used in WWII" , "Disease-bearing fly" , "Blood-sucker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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