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Revolutionary touring a radical pantomime (7)

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I believe the answer is:

charade

'pantomime' is the definition.
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'revolutionary touring a radical' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' becomes 'che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'touring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (touring can mean going round).
'radical' becomes 'rad'.
'a'+'rad'='arad'
'che' going around 'arad' is 'CHARADE'.

(Other definitions for charade that I've seen before include "An absurd pretence, could be a game" , "Word-guessing riddle" , "Had care in the acted riddle" , "sham" , "Ludicrous pretence" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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