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Revolutionary yearning to get new European state capital (8)

Ross

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cheyenne

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'state capital' is the definition.
(state capital of Wyoming)

'revolutionary yearning to get new european' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' becomes 'che' (Che Guevara the Marxist revolutionary).
'yearning' becomes 'yen' (yen is a kind of yearning).
'to get' says to put letters next to each other.
'new european' becomes 'ne' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'che'+'yen'+'ne'='CHEYENNE'

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(Other definitions for cheyenne that I've seen before include "native language" , "Native American of the western Plains" , "American Indian" , "US city" , "Indigenous Indian" .)

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