French composer and wife getting into more hackneyed, factual author (6,6)

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travel writer

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'factual author' is the definition.
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'french composer and wife getting into more hackneyed' is the wordplay.
'french composer' becomes 'Ravel' (Maurice Ravel).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'wife' becomes 'w' (abbreviation).
'getting into' is an insertion indicator.
'more hackneyed' becomes 'triter' ('trite' can be a synonym of 'hackneyed').
'ravel'+'w'='ravelw'
'ravelw' going within 'triter' is 'TRAVEL WRITER'.

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