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Delighted as Conservative showed anger (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chuffed

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

'conservative showed anger' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'conservative' could be 'c' (UK political abbreviation) and 'c' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'huffed' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'as' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for chuffed that I've seen before include "Happy" , "what bad wolf did?" , "Very glad" , "to have gone like a train?" , "Mallard may have done this" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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