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Be busy skewering folly and cruelty (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inhumanity

'cruelty' is the definition.
(I know that inhumanity is a type of cruelty)

'be busy skewering folly' is the wordplay.
'be busy' becomes 'hum' (I've seen this in another clue).
'skewering' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters skewer into others).
'folly' becomes 'inanity' (I've seen this before).
'hum' going inside 'inanity' is 'INHUMANITY'.

'and' is the link.

(Another definition for inhumanity that I've seen is " Cruelness, brutality".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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