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Shock waves from cabalists dismissing CIA (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

blasts

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'shock waves' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to natural events as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'from cabalists dismissing cia' is the wordplay.
'from' indicates an anagram (from the letters).
'dismissing' is a deletion indicator.
'cabalists' with 'cia' taken out is 'balsts'.
'balsts' anagrammed gives 'BLASTS'.

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(Other definitions for blasts that I've seen before include "curses" , "Attacks vituperatively" , "Explosions" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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