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Service area for butcher (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

massacre

'butcher' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'service area' is the wordplay.
'service' becomes 'mass' (I've seen this in other clues).
'area' becomes 'acre' (I've seen this before).
'mass'+'acre'='MASSACRE'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for massacre that I've seen before include "Indiscriminate slaughter" , "Slaughter, pogrom" , "Butchery" , "Destroy" , "Large-scale indiscriminate killing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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