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Way to be overlooked by conservative crowd (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

concourse

'crowd' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'way to be overlooked by conservative' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'course' (course is a kind of way).
'to be overlooked by' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go above others).
'conservative' becomes 'con' (abbreviation for Conservative).
'course' put after 'con' is 'CONCOURSE'.

(Other definitions for concourse that I've seen before include "Meeting place" , "shopping mall, say" , "A gathering of people" , "part of airport" , "crowd" .)

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