The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 plus 4 letter word VANITY FAIR
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result VANITY FAIR
- Victorian allusive narrative – it tickles your fancy? Accordingly, I recommend, to start with, ____!
- Sharp? She is in this novel!
- Book produced by Italian in navy, awfully objective
- Volume: a pretty tiny novel within a novel
- Tiny changes in volume, a fine novel
- Novel having pride without prejudice?
- Book, as the case may be, fine
- Novel sort of case for lady, blonde
- Italian in navy reread fine novel
- Monthly magazine that’s set in the Napoleonic Wars
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