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Making a Mohican terrifying (4-7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hair-raising

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'terrifying' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'making a mohican' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'making' could be 'raising' (raising is a kind of making) and 'raising' is found within the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for hair-raising that I've seen before include "Extremely alarming" , "Very scary" , "Very frightening" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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