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Running as a cure for split in foot? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caesura

'split in foot?' is the definition.
(split in a metrical foot in poetry)

'running as a cure' is the wordplay.
'running' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters run around to different places).
'as'+'a'+'cure'='asacure'
'asacure' anagrammed gives 'CAESURA'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for caesura that I've seen before include "Break in line" , "Short pause in a line of verse" , "Pause or interruption (in conversation or prose)" , "Pause near middle of verse line" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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