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Located around nightclub's centre getting thwarted (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spited

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'thwarted' is the definition.

'located around nightclub's centre' is the wordplay.
'located' becomes 'sited' ('site' can be a synonym of 'locate').
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'nightclub's centre' becomes 'p' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sited' going around 'p' is 'SPITED'.

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for spited that I've seen is " what offenders did?".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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