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Fancy Conservative party (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crave

'fancy' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'conservative party' is the wordplay.
'conservative' becomes 'c' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'party' becomes 'rave' (I've seen this before).
'c'+'rave'='CRAVE'

(Other definitions for crave that I've seen before include "Beg; long for" , "Fairly sizeable" , "Have strong urge" , "Beseech" , "Really want" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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