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Semester at Yale for Victoria, say (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

terminus

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'victoria say' is the definition.
(I know that London Victoria station is a dead-end station)

'semester at yale' is the wordplay.
'semester' becomes 'term' (I've seen this in another clue).
'at' becomes 'in' (synonymous in some cases - eg at school, in school).
'yale' becomes 'us' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'term'+'in'+'us'='TERMINUS'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for terminus that I've seen before include "Final stop" , "bust revealed" , "End station" , "End, extremity" , "End of the line, bus or train" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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