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Toast and greeting succeeded with Conservative (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

history

'toast' is the definition.
(as in you're history, you're toast)

'greeting succeeded with conservative' is the wordplay.
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'succeeded' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'conservative' becomes 'tory' (informal term for a Conservative Party member).
'hi'+'s'+'tory'='HISTORY'

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for history that I've seen before include "Chronicle" , "eventful past" , "'... repeats itself'" , "Old record" , "Account of past events" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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