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Leader ordered liar to die (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

editorial

'leader' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'ordered liar to die' is the wordplay.
'ordered' is an anagram indicator.
'liar'+'to'+'die'='liartodie'
'liartodie' is an anagram of 'EDITORIAL'.

(Other definitions for editorial that I've seen before include "Newspaper opinion piece" , "Article giving opinion of a newspaper" , "Leading article" , "Chief newspaper article" , "paper item" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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