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Artist crossing a street to see devotee (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rasta

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'see devotee' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'artist crossing a street' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'crossing' is an insertion indicator.
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'a'+'st'='ast'
'ra' placed around 'ast' is 'RASTA'.

'to' is the link.

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(Other definitions for rasta that I've seen before include "Follower of Rastafarianism" , "Bob Marley, for one" , "Often a Jamaican" , "Jamaican believer" , "One dreaded" .)

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