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Drone flying one Republican assumes to be properly organised (2,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

in order

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'properly organised' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can occasionally mean the same thing.

'drone flying one republican assumes to' is the wordplay.
'flying' indicates an anagram.
'one republican' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'assumes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'to' becomes 'i' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'drone' with letters rearranged gives '[drone]'.
'[drone]'+'r'='norder'
'norder' enclosing 'i' is 'IN ORDER'.

'be' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for in order that I've seen before include "Nun may be" , "working properly" , "as many nuns are" , "Appropirate in the circumstances" , "Able to operate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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