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No editor — and no editorial? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nonfiction

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'editorial?' is the definition.
(editorial is a kind of nonfiction)

'no editor and no' is the wordplay.
'no editor' becomes 'fiction' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'no' becomes 'non' (I've seen this in other clues).
'fiction' after 'non' is 'NONFICTION'.

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(Another definition for nonfiction that I've seen is " As a writer, you couldn't make it up!".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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