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Suitable music for a chap in a rage (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ragtime

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'suitable music' is the definition.
'ragtime' can be an answer for 'music' (ragtime is a kind of music). I'm unsure of the 'suitable' bit.

'chap in a rage' is the wordplay.
'chap' becomes 'tim' (short for Timothy).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tim' placed into 'rage' is 'RAGTIME'.

'for a' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for ragtime that I've seen before include "Migrate to find jazz music" , "Kind of music" , "Jazz music for Maigret" , "Style of jazz popularised by Scott Joplin et al" , "Early jazz style" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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