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Men fine with one article by Blair? (9)

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orwellian

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'men fine' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'one article by blair?' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'blair?' becomes 'orwell' (I've seen this before).
'i'+'an'='ian'
'ian' after 'orwell' is 'ORWELLIAN'.

'with' is the link.

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(Other definitions for orwellian that I've seen before include "after 1984" , "Related to Eric Blair?" , "Like Napoleon, perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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