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Being checked in growth gave an aerobatic display? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stunted

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'gave an aerobatic display?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with social activities as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'being checked in growth' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'ted' (Ted is an example) and 'ted' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'stun' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for stunted that I've seen before include "Retarded in growth" , "Dwarfed, limited" , "Undersized" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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