Crossword Genius

Relegation? There's strong feeling shown by crowd finally (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

demotion

'relegation?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'strong feeling shown by crowd finally' is the wordplay.
'strong feeling' becomes 'emotion' (I've seen this before).
'shown by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
The final letter of 'crowd' is 'd'.
'emotion' after 'd' is 'DEMOTION'.

'there's' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for demotion that I've seen before include "Going down" , "Reduction to lower rank as punishment" , "The putting down" , "Relegation" , "A lowering in rank or position" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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