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Impervious to nastiest crook stalking queen (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

resistant

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'impervious to' is the definition.
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'nastiest crook stalking queen' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'nastiest' is 'esistant' which is within the answer.
'queen' could be 'r' (abbreviation for regina, e.g. in ER ) and 'r' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for resistant that I've seen before include "unaffected" , "tough" , "not accommodating" , "Withstanding adverse conditions" , "Impervious to various sources of damage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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