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Separatist movement around revolutionary Crete and the rest

Ross

I believe the answer is:

et cetera

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

'separatist movement around revolutionary crete' is the subsidiary indication.
'separatist movement' becomes 'eta' (I've seen this in other clues).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'revolutionary' is an anagram indicator.
'crete' with letters rearranged gives 'ceter'.
'eta' enclosing 'ceter' is 'etcetera'.

(Other definitions for et cetera that I've seen before include "Etc" , "'And so forth (2,6)'" , "And similar things" , "and the like" , "That can reduce length of sentence" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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