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Horrible tailless rodent suppresses wicked snort (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

monstrous

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'horrible' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'tailless rodent suppresses wicked snort' is the wordplay.
'tailless rodent' becomes 'mous' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'suppresses' is an insertion indicator.
'wicked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'snort' with letters rearranged gives 'nstro'.
'mous' going around 'nstro' is 'MONSTROUS'.

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(Other definitions for monstrous that I've seen before include "Outrageously wrong" , "really good!" , "Quite outrageous" , "Shockingly brutal or cruel" , "Extraordinarily large" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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