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Party is a natural disaster (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

saturnalia

'party' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'is a natural disaster' is the wordplay.
'disaster' is an anagram indicator.
'is'+'a'+'natural'='isanatural'
'isanatural' is an anagram of 'SATURNALIA'.

(Other definitions for saturnalia that I've seen before include "orgy" , "Old festival" , "Ancient Roman December festival" , "wild party" , "Wild Roman festival" .)

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