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Retreats as a spider moves around quietly (10)

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I believe the answer is:

disappears

'retreats' is the definition.
(to retreat is to disappear or leave)

'as a spider moves around quietly' is the wordplay.
'moves' indicates an anagram.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'quietly' becomes 'p' (p for piano and quiet).
'as'+'a'+'spider'='asaspider'
'asaspider' is an anagram of 'disapears'.
'disapears' going around 'p' is 'DISAPPEARS'.

(Other definitions for disappears that I've seen before include "becomes lost" , "goes missing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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