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Recording threatening to bracket Republican individual as bigoted (14)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

discriminatory

'bigoted' is the definition.

'recording threatening to bracket republican individual' is the wordplay.
'recording' becomes 'disc' (disc is a kind of recording).
'threatening' becomes 'minatory' ('minatory' can be a synonym of 'threatening').
'to bracket' is an insertion indicator.
'republican' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'individual' becomes 'i'.
'disc'+'minatory'='discminatory'
'r'+'i'='ri'
'discminatory' placed around 'ri' is 'DISCRIMINATORY'.

'as' is the link.

(Other definitions for discriminatory that I've seen before include "Showing prejudice" , "Biased" , "showing bias" , "Partial" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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