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Radiology technician did this... read wrongly about Yankee after ten (1-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

x-rayed

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'radiology technician did this read wrongly about yankee after ten' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs occasionally mean the same thing.

'read wrongly about yankee after ten' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' indicates an anagram.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'yankee' becomes 'Y' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'ten' becomes 'x' (roman numeral).
'read' is an anagram of 'raed'.
'raed' enclosing 'y' is 'rayed'.
'rayed' after 'x' is 'X-RAYED'.

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(Other definitions for x-rayed that I've seen before include "Photographed using radiation" , "Medically photographed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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