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Statesman's article in the next edition (5)

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I believe the answer is:

texan

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'the next edition' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'statesman's article' is the wordplay.
'statesman's' becomes 'tex' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'tex'+'an'='TEXAN'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for texan that I've seen before include "One from south-west USA" , "like LBJ" , "Native of Houston, perhaps" , "Inhabitant of Dallas?" , "From a large US state" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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