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Celebrities go after county that's abandoning young artist (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

surrealist

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'artist' is the definition.
(I know that surrealist is a type of artist)

'celebrities go after county' is the wordplay.
'celebrities' becomes 'alist' (A-list).
'go after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'county' becomes 'surre' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'alist' put after 'surre' is 'SURREALIST'.

'that's abandoning young' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for surrealist that I've seen before include "Magritte perhaps" , "Breton, say" , "Avant-garde artist" , "Dali or Magritte, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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