Issues with rabble-rousing delaying leader (8)

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editions

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(Other definitions for editions that I've seen before include "written publications?" , "Particular forms of published texts" , "issues for the press" , "Copies of book about sedition" , "Impressions given!" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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