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Agents fail to spot sign on back of cape (10)

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I believe the answer is:

emissaries

'agents' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'fail to spot sign on back of cape' is the wordplay.
'fail to spot' becomes 'miss'.
'sign' becomes 'aries' (star sign).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'back of' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'cape' is 'e'.
'miss'+'aries'='missaries'
'missaries' put after 'e' is 'EMISSARIES'.

(Another definition for emissaries that I've seen is " Agents".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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