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Nothing disturbed bees like being overweight (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

obese

'being overweight' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nothing disturbed bees' is the wordplay.
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'disturbed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'bees' is an anagram of 'bese'.
'o'+'bese'='OBESE'

'like' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for obese that I've seen before include "Extremely portly" , "Too chubby" , "Carrying far too much weight" , "indecently large)" , "Pathologically fat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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