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Pest is occupying shade (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nuisance

'pest' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'is occupying shade' is the wordplay.
'occupying' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'shade' becomes 'nuance' ('nuance' can be a synonym of 'shade'**).
'is' placed inside 'nuance' is 'NUISANCE'.

(Other definitions for nuisance that I've seen before include "Something which annoys" , "It causes inconvenience or annoyance" , "troublesome type" , "Annoying thing/person" , "Bothersome annoying person" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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