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Mostly relations of royal men (5)

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I believe the answer is:

kings

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'men' is the definition.
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'mostly relations of royal' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'relations' becomes 'kins' (kin is a kind of relation).
'of royal' becomes 'gs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'kins' with its last letter removed is 'kin'.
'kin'+'gs'='KINGS'

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(Other definitions for kings that I've seen before include "College etc of royal foundation" , "Two book of the Old Testament" , "Either of two OT books" , "two books in > a number of colleges" , "Name of two Old Testament books" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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