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Dad steps forward in spat... "What's happened?"

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Dad steps forward in spat... "What's happened?"

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The definition

Our definition here is 'What's happened', and our answer will be a word for that.

This clue's fodder is 'Dad' and 'spat'. We'll need to find a short synonym for one of these and use it with the letters of the other to reach our answer, as guided by the clue's indicator(s).

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