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Treacherous woman: all hide, trembling (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

delilah

'treacherous woman' is the definition.
(woman who betrayed Samson in the Bible)

'all hide trembling' is the wordplay.
'trembling' is an anagram indicator.
'all'+'hide'='allhide'
'allhide' is an anagram of 'DELILAH'.

(Other definitions for delilah that I've seen before include "Temptress associated with Samson" , "Samson's destroyer" , "She cut Samson's hair" , "Tom Jones song" , "Samson's nemesis" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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