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Those watching outside fabricated rest about hag (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

twitchers

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'those watching outside' is the definition.
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'fabricated rest about hag' is the wordplay.
'fabricated' indicates an anagram.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hag' becomes 'witch' (synonyms).
'rest' anagrammed gives 'ters'.
'ters' enclosing 'witch' is 'TWITCHERS'.

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(Other definitions for twitchers that I've seen before include "unsettled people" , "Naturalists" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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