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Cell: most of one transformed by author's works? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

corpuscle

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'cell most of one transformed by author's works?' is the definition.
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'cell most of one transformed by author's works?' is the wordplay.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'one transformed' indicates an anagram.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'author's works?' becomes 'corpus' (corpus can mean all the work by a single author).
'cell' with its last letter removed is 'cel'.
'cel' with letters rearranged gives 'cle'.
'cle' after 'corpus' is 'CORPUSCLE'.

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(Other definitions for corpuscle that I've seen before include "Red or white blood cell" , "Cruel cops with blood cell" , "Minute organism in blood" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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