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New pine kitchen? An awful bore (4,2,3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pain in the neck

'bore' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'new pine kitchen? an awful' is the wordplay.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'an' becomes 'a'.
'awful' is an anagram indicator.
'n'+'pine'+'kitchen'+'a'='npinekitchena'
'npinekitchena' with letters rearranged gives 'PAIN IN THE NECK'.

(Other definitions for pain in the neck that I've seen before include "Headache" , "Bothersome annoying person" , "Really annoying person" , "Troublesome person or thing" , "Torticollis" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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