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Make racket, with lorry briefly stuck in street (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

construct

'make' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'racket with lorry briefly stuck in street' is the wordplay.
'racket with' becomes 'con' (both can mean a scam. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'lorry' becomes 'truck' (I've seen this before).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'stuck in' indicates putting letters inside.
'street' becomes 'st'.
'truck' with its final letter taken off is 'truc'.
'truc' inserted into 'st' is 'struct'.
'con'+'struct'='CONSTRUCT'

(Other definitions for construct that I've seen before include "Build, fabricate" , "Get building" , "Put together out of components or parts" , "Build or put parts together" , "Build; theory" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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