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‘Exciting dream revolutionary had creates political initiative (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

demarche

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'political initiative' is the definition.
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''exciting dream revolutionary' is the wordplay.
''exciting' indicates an anagram.
'revolutionary' becomes 'che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'dream' with letters rearranged gives 'demar'.
'demar'+'che'='DEMARCHE'

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(Other definitions for demarche that I've seen before include "political step" , "Mad cheer for diplomatic manoeuvre" , "A diplomatic initiative" , "A move or countermove in diplomatic relations" , "Manoeuvre in diplomatic relations, from French" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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