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Widespread rules control a wand or deregulate cloaks (3,3,5)

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I believe the answer is:

law and order

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'deregulate cloaks' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'widespread rules control a wand or' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'rules' could be 'law' (I've seen this before) and 'law' is found in the answer.
'a' could be 'an' and 'an' is present in the answer.
'or' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for law and order that I've seen before include "civilised behaviour" , "Politician's phrase relating to a safe society" , "strong measures to suppress crime" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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