The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 6 letter word COMPOS MENTIS
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More clues leading to the result COMPOS MENTIS
- People in a heap in the garden: one’s sane
- Rotter is gathering people together
- Smothering people in manure is rational
- Rotter is binding pieces together
- MPs’ incomes to get reformed? That’s sound
- Having gathered pieces, dress is all there
- All there is after remark about rejected bribe
- Not a screwball sitcom, funny about heartless men of letters
- Capable of reasoning that source of money coming in stops income varying
- Opinion about potty son, one’s all there
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