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Fight and shout about ending in uproar (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

brawl

'fight' is the definition.
(brawl is a kind of fight)

'shout about ending in uproar' is the wordplay.
'shout' becomes 'bawl' (I've seen this before).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ending in' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'uproar' is 'r'.
'bawl' going around 'r' is 'BRAWL'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for brawl that I've seen before include "squabble" , "Riotous fight" , "Rowdy scuffle" , "Scuffle, unseemly fight" , "Fracas" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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