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Trespassers dropping pears with anxiety (6)

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stress

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'anxiety' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for stress that I've seen before include "Put weight on" , "Emotional tension" , "Highlight" , "Emphasis on anxiety?" , "nervous tension" .)

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