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Ten
solutions
may
provide
tonic
with
novel
clues
(10,5)
Ten solutions may provide tonic with novel clues (10,5)
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How the clue works
The wordplay here is a big anagram: take the letters of tonic, novel and clues all jumbled together, with "may provide" as the signal to rearrange them, and they spell out COLLECTIVE NOUNS. The definition Ten solutions playfully hints at a group of answers, which is exactly the sort of thing a collective noun describes.