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Ignorant of a foreign article about a general assembly? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unaware

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'ignorant of' is the definition.
('unaware' can be similar in meaning to 'ignorant of')

'a foreign article about a general assembly?' is the wordplay.
'a foreign article' becomes 'un'.
'about' becomes 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers).
'a general assembly?' becomes 'ware' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'un'+'a'+'ware'='UNAWARE'

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(Other definitions for unaware that I've seen before include "Not cognisant" , "Heedless" , "Unwitting, not knowing" , "Not conscious of what is going on" , "Totally ignorant" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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