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Director having drawn winning card stops (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

truffaut

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'director' is the definition.
(Francois Truffaut, 1932-1984)

'drawn winning card stops' is the wordplay.
'drawn' becomes 'taut' (I've seen this before).
'winning' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters win or obtain others).
'card stops' becomes 'ruff' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taut' going around 'ruff' is 'TRUFFAUT'.

'having' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for truffaut that I've seen before include "film director" , "Filmmaker" , "Franois -, French film producer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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