Briefly fume before violent rumble (3,7)

Independent Cryptic #12294 | 21 Across | 2026-03-04
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

SEETH [e] (fume = become angry) without the last letter (briefly), then ROUGH (violent). Rumble, as a verb = see through = to recognise a deception.

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