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Ardent supporter agitated to miss Queen when touring area (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fanatic

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'ardent' is the definition.
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'supporter agitated to miss queen when touring area' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'supporter' could be 'fan' (fan is a kind of supporter) and 'fan' is located in the answer.
'area' could be 'a' (maths abbreviation) and 'a' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'tic' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for fanatic that I've seen before include "crank" , "Extreme enthusiast" , "Excessively devoted" , "Freak" , "Bigot - enthusiast" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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