Crowding wildly round gin spilt by exploding bomb (7)
I believe the answer is:
mobbing
'crowding' is the definition.
(mobbing is a kind of crowding)
'gin spilt by exploding bomb' is the wordplay.
'spilt' is an anagram indicator.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'exploding' is an anagram indicator.
'gin' is an anagram of 'ing'.
'bomb' with letters rearranged gives 'mobb'.
'ing' after 'mobb' is 'MOBBING'.
'wildly round' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
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I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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