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Provoke park officer giving up right at the start (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anger

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'provoke park' is the definition.
'anger' can be an answer for 'provoke' (angering is a kind of provoking). I am not certain of the 'park' bit.

'officer giving up right at the start' is the wordplay.
'officer giving up' becomes 'ange' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at the start' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'right' is 'r'.
'ange'+'r'='ANGER'

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(Other definitions for anger that I've seen before include "Extreme annoyance" , "Nettle" , "Strong feeling of annoyance" , "One of the seven deadly sins" , "Wrath, ire" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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