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Give
authority?
Those
people
might
(7)
Give authority? Those people might (7)
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How the clue works
Definition's Give authority - that's what EMPOWER means, to grant power to someone. For the wordplay, "those people" gives you EM, a colloquial way of saying "them", and then "might" gives you POWER, so EM plus POWER slots together nicely.