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Nasty oriental cat spat (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

altercation

'spat' is the definition.
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'nasty oriental cat' is the wordplay.
'nasty' indicates anagramming the letters.
'oriental'+'cat'='orientalcat'
'orientalcat' anagrammed gives 'ALTERCATION'.

(Other definitions for altercation that I've seen before include "heated argument" , "One's argued" , "Noisy disagreement" , "Noisy quarrel" , "Spat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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