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President Assad's first revolution is nothing special (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pedestrian

'nothing special' is the definition.

'president assad's first revolution' is the wordplay.
'assad's first' becomes 'a' (1st letter of 'assad').
'revolution' indicates an anagram.
'president'+'a'='presidenta'
'presidenta' with letters rearranged gives 'PEDESTRIAN'.

'is' is the link.

(Other definitions for pedestrian that I've seen before include "not very fast" , "How commonplace" , "Boring" , "Run-of-the mill" , "Hiker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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