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Brains evicting unruly civilians from matinee Virgil Tracy's mishandled (4,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

grey matter

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'brains' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'civilians from matinee virgil tracy's mishandled' is the wordplay.
'from' is a deletion indicator.
'mishandled' is an anagram indicator.
'matinee'+'virgil'+'tracys'='matineevirgiltracys'
'matineevirgiltracys' with 'civilians' taken away is 'mteergtray'.
'mteergtray' is an anagram of 'GREY MATTER'.

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(Other definitions for grey matter that I've seen before include "Issue lacking clear boundaries" , "Intelligence; the brain" , "stuff in the head" , "Brains" , "intellectual capacity?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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