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Stay for act including clairvoyance (7)

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I believe the answer is:

respite

'stay' is the definition.
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'act including clairvoyance' is the wordplay.
'act' becomes 'rite' (rite is a kind of act**).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'clairvoyance' becomes 'esp' ('esp' can be a synonym of 'clairvoyance').
'rite' placed around 'esp' is 'RESPITE'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for respite that I've seen before include "Pause from exertion, etc" , "Pause; reprieve" , "Brief period of relief" , "Break from doing something" , "interruption" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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