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General shift in values surrounding Republican (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

universal

'general' is the definition.
(I know that general can be written as universal)

'shift in values surrounding republican' is the wordplay.
'shift' indicates an anagram.
'surrounding' indicates putting letters inside.
'republican' becomes 'R' (abbreviation).
'in'+'values'='invalues'
'invalues' is an anagram of 'univesal'.
'univesal' enclosing 'r' is 'UNIVERSAL'.

(Other definitions for universal that I've seen before include "blanket" , "Ubiquitous" , "Of worldwide scope" , "Worldwide or cosmic" , "Found everywhere" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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