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Excise duty unlimited following Russia's first stock sale to the public (3,3)

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I believe the answer is:

rip out

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'excise' is the definition.
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'duty unlimited following russia's first stock sale to the public' is the wordplay.
'unlimited' indicates the central letters (remove the limits/outer letters).
'following' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'first' indicates taking the first letters.
'stock' indicates putting letters inside (some letters contain or stock others).
'sale to the public' becomes 'ipo' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The centre of 'duty' is 'ut'.
The initial letter of 'russias' is 'r'.
'ut' put after 'r' is 'rut'.
'rut' placed around 'ipo' is 'RIP OUT'.

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