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Drastic rules from receivers inhibiting Yankee (9)

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I believe the answer is:

tyrannies

'drastic rules' is the definition.

'receivers inhibiting yankee' is the wordplay.
'receivers' becomes 'trannies' (short for transistor radios).
'inhibiting' is an insertion indicator.
'yankee' becomes 'y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'trannies' going around 'y' is 'TYRANNIES'.

'from' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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