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Poison scare in stews (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arsenic

'poison' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'scare in stews' is the wordplay.
'stews' indicates anagramming the letters.
'scare'+'in'='scarein'
'scarein' with letters rearranged gives 'ARSENIC'.

(Other definitions for arsenic that I've seen before include "-- and Old Lace (play)" , "Poison used in pesticides and weedkillers" , "As briefly identified" , "Poison found in races" , "Toxic metalloid element" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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