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Criticise Americans accepting order for cigar (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

panatella

'cigar' is the definition.
(type of cigar)

'criticise americans accepting order' is the wordplay.
'criticise' becomes 'pan' (informal term meaning to criticise heavily).
'americans' becomes 'AA' (two abbreviations for American).
'accepting' is an insertion indicator.
'order' becomes 'tell' (synonyms).
'aa' going around 'tell' is 'atella'.
'pan'+'atella'='PANATELLA'

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for panatella that I've seen before include "One smoker lights" , "that's smoked" , "Long, thin cigar" , "Kind of cigar" , "source of smoke" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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