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Beat time with spirit and anger (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tantrum

'anger' is the definition.
(tantrum is a kind of anger)

'beat time with spirit' is the wordplay.
'beat' becomes 'tan' (I've seen this before**).
'time' becomes 't'.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'spirit' becomes 'rum' (I've seen this before).
'tan'+'t'+'rum'='TANTRUM'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for tantrum that I've seen before include "throwing this?" , "Paddy" , "Burst of temper" , "Childish outbreak of temper" , "fit of bad temper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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