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People who run things possibly ran games (8)

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I believe the answer is:

managers

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'people who run' is the definition.
'managers' can be an answer for 'people' (manager is a kind of person). I'm unsure of the rest of the definition.

'possibly ran games' is the wordplay.
'possibly' is an anagram indicator.
'ran'+'games'='rangames'
'rangames' with letters rearranged gives 'MANAGERS'.

'things' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for managers that I've seen before include "Coping" , "Executives, overseers" , "Sports team chiefs" , "Executives, administrators" .)

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