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Illnesses with man taken short, going to wrong loo! (8)

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I believe the answer is:

maladies

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'illnesses' is the definition.
('malady' can be a synonym of 'illness')

'man taken short going to wrong loo' is the wordplay.
'taken short' means to remove the last letter.
'going to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'wrong loo' becomes 'ladies' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man' with its final letter taken off is 'ma'.
'ma'+'ladies'='MALADIES'

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for maladies that I've seen before include "Complaints" , "illnesses" , "Diseases, ailments" .)

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