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Place in epidemiologist's study for local bugs (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

displeases

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'local bugs' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'place in epidemiologist's study' is the wordplay.
'place' becomes 'pl' (I've seen this in other clues).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'epidemiologist's study' becomes 'diseases' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'pl' put within 'diseases' is 'DISPLEASES'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for displeases that I've seen before include "causes irritation" , "irritates" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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