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Retirement allowance? Not artificial, but extraordinary (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

supernatural

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'extraordinary' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'retirement allowance? not artificial' is the wordplay.
'retirement allowance?' becomes 'super' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'not artificial' becomes 'natural' ('natural' is the opposite to 'artificial').
'super'+'natural'='SUPERNATURAL'

'but' is the link.

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(Other definitions for supernatural that I've seen before include "Magic" , "Not of this world" , "Magical; occult" , "unknown to science" , "Miraculous, magical" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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