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Genius Farah restrains terrible tears (7)

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I believe the answer is:

maestro

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'genius' is the definition.
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'farah restrains terrible tears' is the wordplay.
'farah' becomes 'mo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'restrains' is an insertion indicator.
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'tears' anagrammed gives 'aestr'.
'mo' enclosing 'aestr' is 'MAESTRO'.

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(Other definitions for maestro that I've seen before include "Famous conductor" , "Highly skilled musician" , "conductor, maybe" , "Master of an art, or a great conductor of music" , "Distinguished musician - most are (anag)" .)

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