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Party introducing rules completely upset monarch once (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oswald

'monarch once' is the definition.
(I know that Oswald was a monarch)

'party introducing rules completely upset' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'introducing' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters introduced or inserted into others).
'rules' becomes 'laws' (law is a kind of rule).
'completely upset' says the letters should be written in reverse (in a down clue, letters go up).
'do' enclosing 'laws' is 'dlawso'.
'dlawso' backwards is 'OSWALD'.

(Other definitions for oswald that I've seen before include "chap" , "Lee Harvey . . . . . ., assassin of JFK" , "Lee Harvey . . . . . . assassinated President Kennedy" , "King of the Northumbrians, d. 642 - President Kennedy's assassin, d. 1963" , "Man" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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