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Nippers heard regularly in pieces (6)

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I believe the answer is:

biters

'nippers' is the definition.

'heard regularly in pieces' is the wordplay.
'regularly' indicates alternate letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pieces' becomes 'bits' ('bit' can be a synonym of 'piece'**).
The alternate letters of 'heard' are 'er'.
'er' placed into 'bits' is 'BITERS'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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