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Accuse a right shower, including Government leader (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

arraign

'accuse' is the definition.
(arraigning is a kind of accusing)

'a right shower including government leader' is the wordplay.
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'shower' becomes 'rain' ('rain shower' can be a synonym of 'shower'**).
'including' is an insertion indicator.
'leader' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'government' is 'g'.
'rain' placed around 'g' is 'raign'.
'a'+'r'+'raign'='ARRAIGN'

(Other definitions for arraign that I've seen before include "Bring to trial" , "Accuse before tribunal" , "Indict, accuse" , "Bring to court to answer a charge" , "Call to account" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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