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Naughty kids finally admit mistakes (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

terrors

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'naughty kids' is the definition.
'terrors' can be an answer for 'kids' (terror is a kind of kid). I'm unsure of the 'naughty' bit.

'finally admit mistakes' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'mistakes' could be 'errors' ('error' can be a synonym of 'mistake') and 'errors' is located in the answer.
A single letter 't' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for terrors that I've seen is " Great fears".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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