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Worry about nothing ancient predicted (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

foretold

'predicted' is the definition.
('foretold' can be a synonym of 'predicted')

'worry about nothing ancient' is the wordplay.
'worry' becomes 'fret' (fretting is a kind of worrying**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'nothing' becomes 'o' (looks like zero - 0).
'ancient' becomes 'old' ('old' can be similar in meaning to 'ancient').
'fret' placed around 'o' is 'foret'.
'foret'+'old'='FORETOLD'

(Another definition for foretold that I've seen is " Predicted".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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