French are getting behind petition to host one group of stars (8)

Times Cryptic #28772 | 9 Across | 2023-11-28
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

PLEAD (petition) contains [to host] I (one), ES (French for ‘are’ – makes a change from ‘art’!). In my ignorance I went for PILEADES here as I was banking on 2dn being RELY even though I was unable to parse it as such.

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