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Large creatures broke the panels (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elephants

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'large creatures' is the definition.
'elephants' can be an answer for 'creatures' (elephant is a kind of creature). I'm not certain of the 'large' bit.

'broke the panels' is the wordplay.
'broke' is an anagram indicator.
'the'+'panels'='thepanels'
'thepanels' is an anagram of 'ELEPHANTS'.

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(Other definitions for elephants that I've seen before include "Animals from the palest hen" , "The planes (anag.)" , "Jumbos" , "Five-toed pachyderms" , "big game" .)

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