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Drive politician round, collecting papers (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

libido

'drive' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'politician round collecting papers' is the wordplay.
'politician' becomes 'lib'.
'round' becomes 'o' (round can mean a round object**).
'collecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'papers' becomes 'id' (identification papers).
'lib'+'o'='libo'
'libo' placed around 'id' is 'LIBIDO'.

(Other definitions for libido that I've seen before include "Emotional craving" , "Strong urge" , "Sexual or psychological urge" , "lust!" , "Freud's sex drive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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