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Cross about political party leaders getting ruffled (7)

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I believe the answer is:

rippled

'ruffled' is the definition.
('ripple' can be a synonym of 'ruffle')

'cross about political party leaders' is the wordplay.
'cross' becomes 'riled' (I've seen this before).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'leaders' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'political party' is 'pp'.
'riled' enclosing 'pp' is 'RIPPLED'.

'getting' acts as a link.

(Another definition for rippled that I've seen is " ruffled the surface".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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