The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word MECHANICAL
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More clues leading to the result MECHANICAL
- Flute? Part played is routine
- Michael can shift — power-driven?
- Michael Caine set offautomatic
- Automated machine fabricated with carbon and aluminium
- Automatic for Bottom perhaps
- Bottom for one without intelligence
- Cold tea almost pleasant during breakfast, say
- Robot-like as Bottom, say, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Fixer and Mafia boss, unconscious
- Bottom for one without intelligence
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The straight part
We know that "Flute? Part played/routine" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case flute? part played/routine = mechanical.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does MECHANICAL mean?
MECHANICAL noun- Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- A robot or mechanical creature.
- A mechanical engineer.
- An instance of equipment failure.
- A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.
- Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Done by machine.
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Handy with machines.