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Our violent riots — threatening this? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

revolution

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'threatening this?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'our violent riots' is the wordplay.
'riots' indicates an anagram.
'our'+'violent'='ourviolent'
'ourviolent' with letters rearranged gives 'REVOLUTION'.

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(Other definitions for revolution that I've seen before include "Beatles song" , "Cycling" , "Beatles hit" , "See 5" , "Complete turn" .)

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