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Revolutionary endlessly afflicted (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

paine

'revolutionary' is the definition.
(I know that Paine was a revolutionary)

'endlessly afflicted' is the wordplay.
'endlessly' means to remove the last letter.
'afflicted' becomes 'pained' ('pain' can be a synonym of 'afflict').
'pained' with its last letter removed is 'PAINE'.

(Other definitions for paine that I've seen before include "Radical writer called 12" , "Thomas ....., American author of 'The Rights of Man'" , "Tom - - , revolutionary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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