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Nat rose to become an important man (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

senator

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'an important man' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'nat rose to become' is the wordplay.
'to become' is an anagram indicator.
'nat'+'rose'='natrose'
'natrose' with letters rearranged gives 'SENATOR'.

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(Other definitions for senator that I've seen before include "One from uni's governing body" , "Member of the Upper House of the US Congress" , "politician going wrong" , "Upper house US Congressman" , "Member of a governing body" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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