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With constant coverage, novel can't get contract (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

truncate

'contract' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'with constant coverage novel can't get' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'constant' could be 'e' (mathematics: 2.71) and 'e' is present in the answer.
'get' could be 'run' (running is a kind of getting) and 'run' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

(Other definitions for truncate that I've seen before include "Make shorter by cutting off" , "Dock" , "Lop" , "Shorten by cutting off the top" , "Cut short" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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