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Soundly barricade political group (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bloc

'political group' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'soundly barricade' is the wordplay.
'soundly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'barricade' becomes 'block' ('block' can be a synonym of 'barricade').
'block' sounds like 'BLOC'.

(Other definitions for bloc that I've seen before include "multinational group" , "Alliance of nations" , "Group with a common policy" , "A number of countries" , "Political coalition" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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