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Ken sends urn toppling in debauchery (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

drunkenness

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'debauchery' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'ken sends urn toppling' is the wordplay.
'toppling' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'toppled' mean this (the order of letters topples or collapses)).
'ken'+'sends'+'urn'='kensendsurn'
'kensendsurn' anagrammed gives 'DRUNKENNESS'.

'in' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Another definition for drunkenness that I've seen is " Inebriation".)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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