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Drawing out end of debate's allowed in Government (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eliciting

'drawing out' is the definition.
('elicit' can be a synonym of 'draw out')

'end of debate's allowed in government' is the wordplay.
'end of' indicates one should take the final letters.
'allowed' becomes 'licit' (I've seen this before).
'government' becomes 'g'.
The final letter of 'debate' is 'e'.
'e'+'licit'+'in'+'g'='ELICITING'

(Another definition for eliciting that I've seen is " Drawing out (something)".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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