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Snivel about Republican endorsement (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

blurb

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'endorsement' is the definition.
(I know that endorsement can be written as blurb)

'snivel about republican' is the wordplay.
'snivel' becomes 'blub' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'republican' becomes 'r' (abbreviation).
'blub' enclosing 'r' is 'BLURB'.

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(Other definitions for blurb that I've seen before include "printed on jacket" , "A book's puff" , "Marketing text" , "Publisher's text on book" , "Advertising text" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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