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Control furore, cut short during a social event (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ascendance

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'control furore' is the definition.
'ascendance' can be an answer for 'control' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'furore' bit.

'cut short during a social event' is the wordplay.
'cut short' becomes 'sce' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'social event' becomes 'dance' (a dance is a type of social event).
'sce' placed within 'an' is 'ascen'.
'ascen'+'dance'='ASCENDANCE'

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(Other definitions for ascendance that I've seen before include "Upper hand" , "dominating power" , "superiority" , "Control" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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