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Worried MP? Ease his stress (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emphasise

'stress' is the definition.
('stress'->'emphasize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'worried mp? ease his' is the wordplay.
'worried' is an anagram indicator.
'mp'+'ease'+'his'='mpeasehis'
'mpeasehis' is an anagram of 'EMPHASISE'.

(Other definitions for emphasise that I've seen before include "Stress, underline" , "Place stress on" , "Give extra weight to, stress" , "Mashes pie (anag.)" , "Give extra importance to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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