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Safe king avoids appearance in massacre (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peterloo

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'massacre' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'safe king avoids appearance' is the wordplay.
'safe' becomes 'peter' (slang term for a safe).
'king' becomes 'K' (chess abbreviation).
'avoids' is a deletion indicator.
'appearance' becomes 'look' (look is a kind of appearance).
'look' with 'k' taken away is 'loo'.
'peter'+'loo'='PETERLOO'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for peterloo that I've seen before include "Name given to Manchester massacre" , "massacre, say" , "So-called massacre" , "Site of 1819 Manchester massacre" , "1819 Manchester massacre scene" .)

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