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Fury of a college teacher being cut short (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alecto

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'fury' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a college teacher being cut short' is the wordplay.
'a college teacher' becomes 'alec' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'being cut' means to remove the last letter.
'short' becomes 'tot' (both can mean a small alcoholic drink).
'tot' with its last letter taken away is 'to'.
'alec'+'to'='ALECTO'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for alecto that I've seen before include "Fury exhibited" , "One of the Furies; locate (anag.)" , "A fury; locate (anag.)" , "Fury (Greek myth)" , "One of classical Furies" .)

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