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Exclusion of chess player crying out to be heard (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

blackballing

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'exclusion' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'chess player crying out to be heard' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'chess player' could be 'black' (one of the two players in a game of chess) and 'black' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'balling' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'of' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for blackballing that I've seen is " Ostracism".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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