Want photograph with mature nurses destroyed essentially (8)

Independent Cryptic #11958 | 9 Down | 2025-02-05
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

SHOT (a photograph) + AGE (mature, as a verb = get older), containing (nursing) the middle letter (essentially) of [dest] R [oyed]. As in “for want of food” = because of a shortage of it.

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