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Put hand in bog for bully (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

frighten

'bully' is the definition.
(I know that bully is a more specific form of the action intimidate)

'put hand in bog' is the wordplay.
'put' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hand in' becomes 'right' (right is a kind of hand. I am not sure about the 'in' bit.).
'bog' becomes 'fen' (I've seen this in another clue).
'right' put within 'fen' is 'FRIGHTEN'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for frighten that I've seen before include "Put the wind up" , "Cow" , "Spook" , "Terrify" , "Scare, alarm" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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