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Chump scheduled to seize power (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dupe

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'chump' is the definition.
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'scheduled to seize power' is the wordplay.
'scheduled' becomes 'due' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to seize' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'power' becomes 'p'.
'due' placed around 'p' is 'DUPE'.

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(Other definitions for dupe that I've seen before include "Hoodwink, fool" , "Delude" , "One deceived, tricked" , "A cat's-paw" , "Put one over on, cod" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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