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Diarist
looks
furtively
for
audience
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Diarist looks furtively for audience (5)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
The definition is Diarist — that's Samuel Pepys, the famous one. The clever bit is that "for audience" tells you this is a homophone: PEEPS, meaning "looks furtively", sounds just like PEPYS when you say it aloud.