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Traitor gave terrorist bombs (13)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tergiversator

'traitor' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'gave terrorist bombs' is the wordplay.
'bombs' indicates an anagram.
'gave'+'terrorist'='gaveterrorist'
'gaveterrorist' is an anagram of 'TERGIVERSATOR'.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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