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Strangely, casual attire on you at first elicits words of warning (10,5)

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I believe the answer is:

cautionary tales

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'elicits words of warning' is the definition.
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'strangely casual attire on you at first' is the wordplay.
'strangely' indicates anagramming the letters.
'at first' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'you' is 'y'.
'casual'+'attire'+'on'+'y'='casualattireony'
'casualattireony' anagrammed gives 'CAUTIONARY TALES'.

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(Another definition for cautionary tales that I've seen is " Light verses".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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