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A
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Adjective meaning partially automated; used for railway signals which are operated manually but then return to the danger position automatically (10 letters)
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Automanual
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B
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Neat performance-enhancing stimulant used in the later period of the USSR (10)
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Bromantane
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C
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Joint boss; can also be hyphenated (9)
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Comanager
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D
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Strip of all hyperbole; make mundane and prosaic rather than poetic (13)
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Deromanticize
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E
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Big-headedness, narcissism, self-glorification (8)
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Egomania
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F
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Compound containing iron and the element with symbol Mn (14)
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Ferromanganese
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G
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Italian village where the first user ID could be found; boats are anchored here in a type of dry dock (17)
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Guidomandri Marina
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H
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Divination by means of water, e.g. ripples from pebbles dropped in a pool (10)
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Hydromancy
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I
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Word for a lady from the emerald isle (10)
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Irishwoman
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J
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Place where there is a mimic; John travels to a Mexican village to see him (10)
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Jomanichim
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K
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Irrepressible thief (12)
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Kleptomaniac
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L
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Someone who washes clothes and is not a man (12)
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Laundrywoman
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M
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Control every part, however small; interfere with the tiniest detail of (11)
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Micromanage
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N
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Communication with the dead to gain magical powers (10)
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Necromancy
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O
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Piece of furniture named after a Turkish empire (7)
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Ottoman
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P
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Obsession with setting things on fire; also a Def Leppard album (9)
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Pyromania
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Q
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Title which the wife of Sultan Haitham bin Tariq is sometimes known by (11)
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Queen of Oman
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R
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European nation (7)
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Romania
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S
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Female official who makes announcements on behalf of an organisation (11)
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Spokeswoman
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T
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Term for western Turkic peoples from the 8th century (8)
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Turkoman
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U
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Failing to treat a wife/husband/partner as special; showing no love or passion (10)
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Unromantic
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V
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Person such as me, who thinks about words too much (11)
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Verbomaniac
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W
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A term for all non-male humans on Earth (9)
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Womankind
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X
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Use of wood to try to predict the future (9)
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Xylomancy
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Y
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A man holding and cultivating a small area of land (6)
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Yeoman
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Z
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Football team from Abidjan who are, at the time of writing, bottom of the league (5)
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Zoman
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