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Twitch is part of villain's complaint (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

criticism

'complaint' is the definition.

'twitch is part of villain's' is the wordplay.
'twitch' becomes 'tic' (tic is a kind of twitch).
'part of' means one lot of letters goes inside another (part of the inside).
'villain' becomes 'crim' (short for criminal).
'tic'+'is'='ticis'
'ticis' put into 'crim' is 'CRITICISM'.

(Other definitions for criticism that I've seen before include "Examination and judgment of something" , "Evaluation or fault-finding" , "Finding fault" , "Disapproval; review" , "Evaluation of a work of literature" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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