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He's making disturbing noise - worried responders sped off (6)

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I believe the answer is:

snorer

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'he's making disturbing noise' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'worried responders sped off' is the wordplay.
'worried' indicates anagramming the letters (worry can mean to interfere with or disturb).
'off' is a deletion indicator (some letters taken off).
'responders' with 'sped' taken out is 'roners'.
'roners' is an anagram of 'SNORER'.

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(Other definitions for snorer that I've seen before include "Noisy sleeper" , "Someone who makes snorting noises while asleep" , "Maker of raucous nocturnal sounds" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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