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Ignorant article in Le Monde about a conflict (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unaware

'ignorant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'article in le monde about a conflict' is the wordplay.
'article in le monde' becomes 'une' (French indefinite article eg in Le Monde newspaper).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'conflict' becomes 'war' (war is a kind of conflict).
'a'+'war'='awar'
'une' enclosing 'awar' is 'UNAWARE'.

(Other definitions for unaware that I've seen before include "Without knowledge" , "Ignorant - unconscious" , "Nescient" , "Uninformed" , "Unknowing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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