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Model initiated by party of socialist economic radicals (5)

Ross

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poser

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'model' is the definition.
(I know that model can be written as poser)

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(Other definitions for poser that I've seen before include "Toughie" , "This person's affected" , "Difficult problem" , "Spore raises a difficult question" , "Hard question" .)

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