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Force ne’er-do-well to miss second season in America (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

waterfall

'force' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'ne'er-do-well to miss second season in america' is the wordplay.
'ne'er-do-well' becomes 'waster' (both can mean an idle person).
'to miss' is a deletion indicator.
'second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation).
'season in america' becomes 'fall' (US name for autumn).
'waster' with 's' taken out is 'water'.
'water'+'fall'='WATERFALL'

(Other definitions for waterfall that I've seen before include "Cataract" , "source of power, possibly a force in the north" , "Steep descent of a river" , "One of the aqueous drops" , "Such as Niagara" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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