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State often angry about those on vacation (7)

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I believe the answer is:

iterate

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'state often angry about those on vacation' is the definition.
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'angry about those on vacation' is the wordplay.
'angry' becomes 'irate' (irate can mean angry or annoyed).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'on vacation' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'those' with its middle removed is 'te'.
'irate' enclosing 'te' is 'ITERATE'.

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(Other definitions for iterate that I've seen before include "Recapitulate" , "Say again, repeat" , "Repeat, state again" , "Utter or perform repeatedly" , "State repeatedly, say again" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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