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Kindly feeding extremely suspicious bees etc (6)

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I believe the answer is:

swarms

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'bees etc' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'kindly feeding extremely suspicious' is the wordplay.
'kindly' becomes 'warm' (similar in meaning).
'feeding' indicates putting letters inside (one word is fed by another set of letters).
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters (only the extremes of the word are used).
'suspicious' with its middle removed is 'ss'.
'warm' going within 'ss' is 'SWARMS'.

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(Other definitions for swarms that I've seen before include "Dense groups of flying insects" , "'Moving crowds, of bees say (6)'" , "Large groups of flying bees" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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