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Longlist includes Republican, strangely, walking at a leisurely pace (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

strolling

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'strangely walking at a leisurely pace' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'longlist includes republican' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'republican' could be 'r' (political abbreviation) and 'r' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'longlist' is 'stolling' which is within the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for strolling that I've seen before include "Walking leisurely" , "Sauntering" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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