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Cultural Revolution's end, in principle (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ethnic

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'cultural' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'revolution's end in principle' is the wordplay.
'revolution's end' becomes 'n' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'principle' becomes 'ethic' (ethic is a kind of principle).
'n' placed inside 'ethic' is 'ETHNIC'.

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(Other definitions for ethnic that I've seen before include "Of nations and races" , "Relating to a cultural grouping" , "To do with race or nationality" , "Denoting origin by descent" , "Relating to races" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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