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Frightening experience making German hit out? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nightmare

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'frightening experience' is the definition.
'nightmare' can be an answer for 'experience' (I have seen 'Horrifying experience' mean 'nightmare' so perhaps 'experience' could also mean 'nightmare'). I am not sure about the 'frightening' bit.

'german hit out?' is the wordplay.
'out?' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'out of' mean this).
'german'+'hit'='germanhit'
'germanhit' anagrammed gives 'NIGHTMARE'.

'making' is the link.

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(Other definitions for nightmare that I've seen before include "It makes one restless" , "Frightening dream" , "Frightening nocturnal fantasy" , "Horror" , "Scary nocturnal fantasy" .)

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