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Speeches that close with pious elegy, mostly moving (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

epilogues

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'speeches that close' is the definition.
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'pious elegy mostly moving' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'moving' indicates anagramming the letters.
'pious'+'elegy'='piouselegy'
'piouselegy' with its final letter taken away is 'piouseleg'.
'piouseleg' with letters rearranged gives 'EPILOGUES'.

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(Other definitions for epilogues that I've seen before include "conclusions" , "they follow" , "These finish off" , "final thoughts" .)

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