Cryptic crossword clue
Robot-like as Bottom, say, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word MECHANICAL

I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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The straight part
We know that "Robot-like" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case robot-like = mechanical.
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What does MECHANICAL mean?

MECHANICAL noun
  1. Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
  2. One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
  3. A robot or mechanical creature.
  4. A mechanical engineer.
  5. An instance of equipment failure.
  6. A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
  7. A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.
MECHANICAL adjective
  1. Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
  2. Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
  3. Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
  4. Done by machine.
  5. Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
  6. As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  7. (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
  8. Handy with machines.

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