Yuck! That is excessively short up top, generating something hard (7)

Independent Cryptic #12306 | 7 Down | 2026-03-18
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

TO <o> (=excessively; “short” means last letter is dropped) + UGH (=yuck!) + I.E. (=that is, id est)

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