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Drop weapons and relieve force to stop constant fury (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ceasefire

'drop weapons' is the definition.

'relieve force to stop constant fury' is the wordplay.
'relieve' becomes 'ease' (easing is a kind of relieving).
'force' becomes 'f' (symbol used in Physics e.g. f=ma).
'to stop' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'constant' becomes 'c' (mathematical abbreviation).
'fury' becomes 'ire' (I've seen this before).
'ease'+'f'='easef'
'c'+'ire'='cire'
'easef' inserted into 'cire' is 'CEASEFIRE'.

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for ceasefire that I've seen before include "Break in fighting" , "Truce" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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