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It's not reasonable for individual priest to take head off citizen (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

irrational

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'it's not reasonable' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'individual priest to take head off citizen' is the wordplay.
'individual priest' becomes 'irr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to take head off' means to remove the first letter (I've seen 'taking head off' mean this).
'citizen' becomes 'national' (national can mean a citizen of a country).
'national' with its first letter taken away is 'ational'.
'irr'+'ational'='IRRATIONAL'

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for irrational that I've seen before include "not sensible" , "Crazy" , "Unreasonable" , "Not logical" , "nuts" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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