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Radicals
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Radicals assuming rising changes image (10)
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How the clue works
The definition is Radicals — extremists and agitators. For the wordplay, take rising to signal a reversal: assuming gives you IF, which reversed becomes FI, and that gets tucked inside changes image, which is REBRANDS, giving you FI nestled in REBRANDS to make FIREBRANDS.