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Wild rascals admit starting trouble by painting a picture (3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

art class

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'painting a picture' is the definition.
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'wild rascals admit starting trouble' is the wordplay.
'wild' is an anagram indicator.
'admit' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'starting' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'trouble' is 't'.
'rascals' anagrammed gives 'arclass'.
'arclass' enclosing 't' is 'ART CLASS'.

'by' is the link.

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I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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