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Revolutionary crowd interrupts road race, causing outrage (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

abomination

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'outrage' is the definition.
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'revolutionary crowd interrupts road race' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary crowd' becomes 'bom' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'interrupts' indicates putting letters inside.
'road' becomes 'ai' (I've seen this in other clues).
'race' becomes 'nation' (both can mean a national or ethnic group).
'bom' inserted inside 'ai' is 'abomi'.
'abomi'+'nation'='ABOMINATION'

'causing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for abomination that I've seen before include "Feeling of hatred or disgust" , "Cause of hatred or disgust" , "Action that is vile" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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