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Shakes Diana's very dry champagne served up with starter of scallops (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

disturbs

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'shakes' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'diana's very dry champagne served up with starter of scallops' is the wordplay.
'diana's very' becomes 'dis' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dry champagne' becomes 'brut' (I've seen this before).
'served up' is a reversal indicator.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'starter of' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'scallops' is 's'.
'brut' back-to-front is 'turb'.
'dis'+'turb'+'s'='DISTURBS'

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(Other definitions for disturbs that I've seen before include "Breaks the quiet or calm of" , "Upsets or troubles" , "Interferes with peace or order" , "Upsets or stirs up" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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