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Made beastly noise, tangled in hedge (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

neighed

'made beastly noise' is the definition.
(made a noise like a horse)

'tangled in hedge' is the wordplay.
'tangled' is an anagram indicator.
'in'+'hedge'='inhedge'
'inhedge' anagrammed gives 'NEIGHED'.

(Other definitions for neighed that I've seen before include "Whinnied" , "Cried" , "Made a sound like a horse" , "how Arab, for example, sounded" , "sounded "horsey"" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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