The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word ASYMMETRIC
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More clues leading to the result ASYMMETRIC
- Sadly my team’s mostly fat and unbalanced
- Like sports bars, mister? YMCA rocks!
- “Uneven, unstable” – May’s term in charge
- My crime? Sat around, being crooked
- First of milestones in cryptic mastery, I see? Not like this puzzle
- One cart adapted to carry trophies returned lacking balance
- Unbalanced May’s contrived measuring system
- May upset with Times covering resistance by Conservative? That’s irregular
- Not even a gymnast would use such bars
- Since rejection of TV award, skilful act mostly is off balance
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The straight part
We know that "Not like this puzzle" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case not like this puzzle = asymmetric.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 ASYMMETRIC mean?
ASYMMETRIC adjective- Not symmetric.
- Not involving a mutual exchange of keys between the sender and receiver.
- Of a relation R on a set S: having the property that for any two elements of S (not necessarily distinct), at least one is not related to the other via R.