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Quiet increasingly embarrassed evidence destroyer? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shredder

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'evidence destroyer?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'quiet increasingly embarrassed' is the wordplay.
'quiet' becomes 'sh'.
'increasingly embarrassed' becomes 'redder' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sh'+'redder'='SHREDDER'

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(Other definitions for shredder that I've seen before include "Red herds (anag.)" , "Device for destroying documents" , "Destroyer of documents" , "Paper-cutter" , "security equipment" .)

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