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Hostile feeling: smear upset Crown Jewels robber (3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bad blood

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

'smear upset crown jewels robber' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'smear' could be 'blood' (blooding is a kind of smearing) and 'blood' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'bad' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for bad blood that I've seen before include "Hostility, ill feeling of sanguinary kind" , "Rancour" , "Ill-feeling (between people)" , "Feeling of animosity or hostility" , "Ill feeling, animosity of sanguinary sort" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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