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Rail about large university's power (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fluence

'power' is the definition.
(fluence can mean hypnotic power)

'rail about large university's' is the wordplay.
'rail' becomes 'fence' (fence rail is a kind of rail).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'university' becomes 'u' (abbreviation for university).
'l'+'u'='lu'
'fence' placed around 'lu' is 'FLUENCE'.

(Another definition for fluence that I've seen is " Hypnotic power".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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