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Ant panicked a politician with the habit of swimming (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

natatory

'with the habit of swimming' is the definition.
(natatory means relating to swimming)

'ant panicked a politician' is the wordplay.
'panicked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'politician' becomes 'tory' (I've seen this before).
'ant' anagrammed gives 'nat'.
'nat'+'a'+'tory'='NATATORY'

(Other definitions for natatory that I've seen before include "Of swimming" , "habit of a floating voter?!" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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