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Threaten island legislator with death (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

impend

'threaten' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'island legislator with death' is the wordplay.
'island legislator' becomes 'imp' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'death' becomes 'end' (synonyms).
'imp'+'end'='IMPEND'

(Other definitions for impend that I've seen before include "seen to be around the corner" , "Be about to take place" , "Become imminent" , "(Of a bad thing) loom" , "Threaten - be about to happen" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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