The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PLAYWRIGHT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Sunday Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PLAYWRIGHT
- Dramatist to have fun with the Conservatives?
- Will perhaps follow the rules of the game, keeping wicket
- Beginning of popular poem by Welsh conservative writer
- Writer wary about being in difficulty
- Promise to welcome terribly wary dramatist
- Writer’s first shot at porn: what girly larks!
- Perform just for the ears of Shakespeare perhaps
- Dramatist‘s gamble with privilege
- One creates drama from predicament besetting wife in Scottish town
- Scenarist wary about getting into trouble
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The straight part
We know that "Coward, for example" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case coward, for example = playwright.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PLAYWRIGHT mean?
PLAYWRIGHT noun- A writer and creator of theatrical plays.