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Government's current input to local pit conversion (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

political

'government's' is the definition.
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'current input to local pit conversion' is the wordplay.
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'input to' is an insertion indicator.
'conversion' is an anagram indicator.
'local'+'pit'='localpit'
'localpit' anagrammed gives 'poltical'.
'i' placed within 'poltical' is 'POLITICAL'.

(Other definitions for political that I've seen before include "Governmental" , "Involved with affairs of state" , "for parties?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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