The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word AGITATOR
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More clues leading to the result AGITATOR
- Got at IRA suspect, a troublemaker
- Troublemaker's air got at cast
- Activist got at IRA’s duplicity
- One stirring goat and rat stew that I must tuck into!
- Agent provocateur‘s a soldier at Turnhill
- Troublemaker fell pursuing one with unusual gait
- Overthrown capital holds thanks to subversive
- Activist, a good one, thanks to queen
- He disturbs a reptile eating it
- Georgia flicked it at soldiers, being a troublemaker
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The straight part
We know that "Troublemaker" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case troublemaker = agitator.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AGITATOR mean?
AGITATOR noun- One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others, for example political reformers.
- An implement for shaking or mixing.
- One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; called also adjutators.