German writer embraced by French one finally squeezed without hands (8)
I believe the answer is:
unmanned
'without hands' is the definition.
(hands and men can both mean workers)
'german writer embraced by french one finally squeezed' is the wordplay.
'german writer' becomes 'mann' (Thomas Mann, 1875-1955).
'embraced by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'french one' becomes 'une' (I've seen this in another clue).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'squeezed' is 'd'.
'mann' going into 'une' is 'unmanne'.
'unmanne'+'d'='UNMANNED'
(Other definitions for unmanned that I've seen before include "Not requiring a crew or staff" , "Like a drone" , "Lacking personnel" , "Without staff or personnel - made weak" , "Weakened the courage of in male way" .)