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Suppress article about rubbish tribunal lacking guts (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

throttle

'suppress' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

I can't explain the remainder of the clue.

(Other definitions for throttle that I've seen before include "Choke, strangle" , "Accelerator - choke" , "Strangle; control (an engine)" , "Strangle; regulator valve" , "Suppress - kill" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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