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Nun is pale, shaking head (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peninsula

'head' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nun is pale shaking' is the wordplay.
'shaking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'nun'+'is'+'pale'='nunispale'
'nunispale' with letters rearranged gives 'PENINSULA'.

(Other definitions for peninsula that I've seen before include "Lower California, say" , "Alpine sun (anag.)" , "Malay for one" , "the Balkans and Italy, for example" , "coastal feature" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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