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Press triumph over Democrat (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crowd

'press' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'triumph over democrat' is the wordplay.
'triumph' becomes 'crow' ('crow' can be a synonym of 'triumph').
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'democrat' becomes 'd'.
'crow'+'d'='CROWD'

(Other definitions for crowd that I've seen before include "Large group of people" , "Horde" , "Masses" , "Mob of people" , "Social set" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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