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Arab newspaper backs you people (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yemeni

'arab' is the definition.
(I know that Yemeni is a type of arab)

'newspaper backs you people' is the wordplay.
'newspaper' becomes 'i' (the i is a British newspaper).
'backs' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'you' becomes 'ye' (historical version of 'you').
'people' becomes 'men' (men are people).
'ye'+'men'='yemen'
'i' put after 'yemen' is 'YEMENI'.

(Other definitions for yemeni that I've seen before include "Native of a country on the Arabian Peninsula" , "ME citizen" , "Coming from Aden?" , "Inhabitant of the country at the southern end of the Arabia" , "Person from Aden perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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