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Sectarian party last to cast stigma off (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dogmatist

'sectarian' is the definition.
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'party last to cast stigma off' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'last to' indicates one should take the final letters.
'off' indicates an anagram.
The last letter of 'cast' is 't'.
't'+'stigma'='tstigma'
'tstigma' is an anagram of 'gmatist'.
'do'+'gmatist'='DOGMATIST'

(Other definitions for dogmatist that I've seen before include "stickler" , "bigot" , "opinionated type" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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