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Still showing sign of nerves supporting short celebrity (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

static

'still' is the definition.
(static can mean still or not moving)

'sign of nerves supporting short celebrity' is the wordplay.
'sign of nerves' becomes 'tic' (as in a nervous tic).
'supporting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'star' with its last letter taken off is 'sta'.
'tic' after 'sta' is 'STATIC'.

'showing' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for static that I've seen before include "problem with radio reception" , "Unmoving like kind of electricity" , "Not moving or changing" , "disturbing thing" , "fixed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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