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Argued
about
backing
Democrat
plot
to
imprison
separatists
once
(7)
Argued about backing Democrat plot to imprison separatists once (7)
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How the clue works
Argued about means debated, i.e. discussed or disputed. The wordplay takes D (Democrat), then BED (plot, as in a garden bed), and ETA (Basque separatists), then all reversed (backing) to give DEB-ATE-D.