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Dictatorial American soldiers encased in concrete (11)

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magisterial

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'dictatorial' is the definition.
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'american soldiers encased in concrete' is the wordplay.
'american soldiers' becomes 'GIs' (GI is an informal term for a US soldier).
'encased in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'concrete' becomes 'material' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gis' put within 'material' is 'MAGISTERIAL'.

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(Other definitions for magisterial that I've seen before include "unlikely to be argued with" , "Commanding" , "enforcing law" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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