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Four articles about Frenchman? Not something I can stand (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anathema

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'not something i can stand' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'four articles about frenchman?' is the wordplay.
'four' becomes 'ana' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'articles' becomes 'the a' (two examples of the part-of-speech: the+a).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'frenchman?' becomes 'm' (abbreviation for Monsieur - like 'Mr').
'thea' placed around 'm' is 'thema'.
'ana'+'thema'='ANATHEMA'

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(Other definitions for anathema that I've seen before include "Person or thing that's abhorred" , "Object of detestation" , "abhorrent" , "B?te noire, hated thing" , "Accursed by the Church" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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