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Moonlit, cool, unending swirls having power to move (10)

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I believe the answer is:

locomotion

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'move' is the definition.
(locomotion is a kind of move)

'moonlit cool unending swirls' is the wordplay.
'unending' means to remove the last letter (the word doesn't have its end letter).
'swirls' is an anagram indicator.
'moonlit'+'cool'='moonlitcool'
'moonlitcool' with its last letter taken away is 'moonlitcoo'.
'moonlitcoo' with letters rearranged gives 'LOCOMOTION'.

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(Other definitions for locomotion that I've seen before include "Travelling" , "The power of movement" , "progress" , "Act of moving" , "It enables one to move" .)

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