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Case with crowd riotous in hallowed institution (6,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sacred cow

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'hallowed institution' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.

'case with crowd riotous' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'riotous' indicates an anagram.
'case'+'crowd'='casecrowd'
'casecrowd' with letters rearranged gives 'SACRED COW'.

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for sacred cow that I've seen before include "Person or institution held to be above criticism" , "one's above criticism?" , "Person, custom, etc unreasonably held to be beyond criticism" , "Facing this, carp not" , "Institution seen as above criticism" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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