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Powerful jamming features intermittent bugle (10)

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bullocking

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'powerful jamming features intermittent bugle' is the definition.
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'jamming features intermittent bugle' is the wordplay.
'jamming' becomes 'blocking' (blocking is a kind of jamming).
'features' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'intermittent' means one should take alternating letters.
The alternate letters of 'bugle' are 'ul'.
'blocking' placed around 'ul' is 'BULLOCKING'.

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