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People with diamonds bolted (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

raced

'bolted' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'people with diamonds' is the wordplay.
'people' becomes 'race' (people can mean a national group or race).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'diamonds' becomes 'd' (abbreviation for the card suit diamonds).
'race'+'d'='RACED'

(Other definitions for raced that I've seen before include "Ran competitively" , "Ran fast" , "Dashed" , "Went fast" , "Hurried" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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