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His violence will clearly have impact on some boys (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rambo

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'his violence will clearly' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'impact on some boys' is the wordplay.
'impact on' becomes 'ram' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'some' says to take the centre.
'boys' becomes 'bat boies' (bat boy is a kind of boy).
The middle of 'batboies' is 'bo'.
'ram'+'bo'='RAMBO'

'have' is the link.

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(Other definitions for rambo that I've seen before include "Stallone's he-man" , "Tough film hero" , "Stallone film character" , "Film series, starring Sylvester Stallone" , "Character relying on brute force" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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