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Heads banging on low bedroom ceilings? Those are frightful! (6,4,2,4,2,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

things that go bump in the night

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'low bedroom ceilings? those are frightful' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'heads banging on' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'on' could be 'at' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'at' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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