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Revolutionary is wrong to back heaven (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trotsky

'revolutionary' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'wrong to back heaven' is the wordplay.
'wrong' becomes 'tort' (legal term).
'to back' is a reversal indicator.
'heaven' becomes 'sky'.
'tort' written backwards gives 'trot'.
'trot'+'sky'='TROTSKY'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for trotsky that I've seen before include "Leon --, murdered Russian revolutionary" , "Marxist leader" , "Revolutionary murdered in Mexico" , "Former Communist" , "Russian assassinated in nineteen forty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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