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High priest's power over quarrel (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pontiff

'high priest's' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'power over quarrel' is the wordplay.
'power' becomes 'p'.
'over' becomes 'on' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'quarrel' becomes 'tiff' (tiff is a kind of quarrel).
'p'+'on'+'tiff'='PONTIFF'

(Other definitions for pontiff that I've seen before include "High-priest" , "Head of the Roman Catholic church" , "Religious leader" , "Title for a pope" , "Bishop" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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