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Angry nurses battle over trickster's command (3,6)

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I believe the answer is:

put across

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'command' is the definition.
(I know that command is a more specific form of the action enjoin)

'angry nurses battle over trickster's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'angry' could be 'cross' (cross can mean annoyed or angry) and 'cross' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for put across that I've seen before include "Effectively express" , "Effectively communicate" , "communicate comprehensibly" , "Spell out" , "Explain" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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