### Clue: Republican rabble leaders put mobile into roadside bomb that's exploded (8)
### Answer: IRRUPTED 
 ### Explanation: Definition: exploded
First letters of Republican Rabble + PUT* in IED (improvised explosive device); irrupt is properly "to enter suddenly or forcibly, to burst in, to break in", but sometimes confused with "erupt", which would give the sense of "explode"