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Dozen chairs, one removed, thrown around with playfulness (10)

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I believe the answer is:

scherzando

'with playfulness' is the definition.
(musical term)

'dozen chairs one removed thrown' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'removed' is a deletion indicator.
'thrown' indicates anagramming the letters.
'dozen'+'chairs'='dozenchairs'
'dozenchairs' with 'i' removed is 'dozenchars'.
'dozenchars' with letters rearranged gives 'SCHERZANDO'.

'around' acts as a link.

(Another definition for scherzando that I've seen is " Playfully".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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