Old man or woman heretic securing Irishman as MP? (15)

Times Cryptic #28724 | 14 Across | 2023-10-03
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

PARENT (old man or woman) + ARIAN (heretic) containing [securing] LIAM (Irishman). Of course parents don’t have to be old, but here we have a reference to the somewhat disrespectful way that offspring sometimes refer to their mother or father as ‘the old man / woman’.

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