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Many a red deer has fled trembling inside (4,4)

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I believe the answer is:

hard left

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'many a red deer' is the definition.
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'has fled trembling inside' is the wordplay.
'has' becomes 'hart' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'trembling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'inside' indicates putting letters inside.
'fled' anagrammed gives 'dlef'.
'hart' going around 'dlef' is 'HARD LEFT'.

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(Other definitions for hard left that I've seen before include "Trots, maybe" , "Extreme party people" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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