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Ancient doer of wrong in alliance (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

confederation

'alliance' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Alliance of states ' mean 'confederation' so perhaps 'alliance' could also mean 'confederation')

'ancient doer of wrong' is the wordplay.
'wrong' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ancient'+'doer'+'of'='ancientdoerof'
'ancientdoerof' is an anagram of 'CONFEDERATION'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for confederation that I've seen before include "Union (of states)" , "Alliance of several parties" , "Loose alliance of political units" , "Alliance of states" , "League of states" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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