The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word AMANUENSIS
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More clues leading to the result AMANUENSIS
- One dictated to a football team measures one’s put together
- Copyist, one visiting a team in French quarters
- Copier a chap uses in novel
- Supply insane sum to retain a literary assistant
- Asian menus translated by stenographer
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- PA a chap uses in resort
- Secretary uses name Susan, I fancy
- Man with an issue to resolve records what’s said
- Secretary of a Premier clubis taken on
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The straight part
We know that "Copyist" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case copyist = amanuensis.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does AMANUENSIS mean?
AMANUENSIS noun- One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.
- A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.