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Powerful body’s miserable cop-outs (7)

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I believe the answer is:

octopus

'powerful body's' is the definition.

'miserable cop-outs' is the wordplay.
'miserable' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'cop'+'outs'='copouts'
'copouts' anagrammed gives 'OCTOPUS'.

(Other definitions for octopus that I've seen before include "Eight-legged creature" , "Mollusc with long tentacles" , "Sea creature's tentacles served as food" , "Tentacled marine mollusc" , "Eight-armed mollusc" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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