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Actor was furious with Scotsman after termination of contract (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tragedian

'actor' is the definition.
(tragedian is a kind of actor)

'was furious with scotsman after termination of contract' is the wordplay.
'was furious' becomes 'raged' (I've seen this in another clue).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'scotsman' becomes 'ian' (common Scottish name).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'termination of' suggests the final letters (the letter which terminates the word).
The final letter of 'contract' is 't'.
'raged' put next to 'ian' is 'ragedian'.
'ragedian' after 't' is 'TRAGEDIAN'.

(Other definitions for tragedian that I've seen before include "Dramatist" , "Serious actor" , "Egad, I rant about dramatic actor" , "Egad, I rant about actor in sad drama" , "A great din (anag) - actor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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