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Advertised school dance and noted November cancellation (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

promoted

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'advertised' is the definition.
('promote' can be a synonym of 'advertize')

'school dance and noted november cancellation' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'dance' could be 'prom' (prom is a kind of dance) and 'prom' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for promoted that I've seen before include "Put up" , "Pushed" , "Advanced" , "Publicised" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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