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Article in French press on poverty perhaps creates anger (6)

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I believe the answer is:

needle

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'anger' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'article in french press on poverty' is the wordplay.
'article in french press' becomes 'le' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'poverty' becomes 'need' (I've seen this before).
'le' put after 'need' is 'NEEDLE'.

'perhaps creates' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for needle that I've seen before include "Wind up" , "Pointer - irritate" , "Bug" , "It's difficult to find one in a haystack" , "Provoke; pointer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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