Group protecting youth having taken out manual (6)
I believe the answer is:
byhand
'manual' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'group protecting youth having taken out' is the wordplay.
'group' becomes 'band' (band can mean a group of people).
'protecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are held or protected).
'having taken' suggests deleting specific letters.
'youth' with 'out' removed is 'yh'.
'band' enclosing 'yh' is 'BYHAND'.
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