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One with royals next to one art gallery getting bug (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

irritate

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'bug' is the definition.
(I know that bug is a more specific form of the action bedevil)

'one with royals next to one art gallery' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'royals next' becomes 'irr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to one art gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'i' put after 'irr' is 'irri'.
'irri'+'tate'='IRRITATE'

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for irritate that I've seen before include "Chafe, annoy" , "Nark" , "Needle" , "Wind up" , "badger" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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