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Commendation from king and old Victor's in shock (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

approval

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'commendation' is the definition.
(I know that commendation can be written as approval)

'king and old victor's in shock' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation for rex, king in Latin).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'old victor's' becomes 'ov' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'shock' becomes 'appal' (synonyms).
'r'+'ov'='rov'
'rov' going inside 'appal' is 'APPROVAL'.

'from' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for approval that I've seen before include "Approbation, favour" , "Favourable judgement" , "On it, goods may be returned if not satisfactory" , "endorsement" , "Confirmation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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