### Clue: Las Vegas employee with a worse lung problem? (8)
### Answer: CROUPIER 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Las Vegas employee
 CROUP(an infection causing a problem with the lungs of children) + -IER(suffix indicating a higher degree of, or "worse" in the case of a problem).**
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