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Block Yankee, creating stir (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chokey

'stir' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'block yankee' is the wordplay.
'block' becomes 'choke' (choking is a kind of blocking).
'yankee' becomes 'y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'choke'+'y'='CHOKEY'

'creating' acts as a link.

(Another definition for chokey that I've seen is " Prison (slang)".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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