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Different extremes in suspense story (9)

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I believe the answer is:

separable

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'different extremes in' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'suspense story' is the wordplay.
'suspense' becomes 'se' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'story' becomes 'parable' (parable is a kind of story).
'se'+'parable'='SEPARABLE'

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(Other definitions for separable that I've seen before include "not permanently joined together?" , "That may be disjoined" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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