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Article about holidaymaker spurning old stripper (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

naturist

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'stripper' is the definition.
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'article about holidaymaker spurning old' is the wordplay.
'article about' becomes 'na' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'holidaymaker' becomes 'tourist' (synonyms).
'spurning' is a deletion indicator.
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'tourist' with 'o' removed is 'turist'.
'na'+'turist'='NATURIST'

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(Other definitions for naturist that I've seen before include "Truant is apt to be a nudist" , "One who prefers to go naked" , "One barely seen" , "one barely feeling comfortable" , "One practices nudity" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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