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Study exposed with English blokes in bondage to achieve climax (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

denouement

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'climax' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'study exposed with english blokes in' is the wordplay.
'study' becomes 'den' (term for a study or office).
'exposed with' becomes 'out' (to out someone is to expose them. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'blokes' becomes 'men' (bloke can informally mean a man).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'e'+'men'='emen'
'out' enclosing 'emen' is 'ouement'.
'den'+'ouement'='DENOUEMENT'

'bondage to achieve' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for denouement that I've seen before include "plot must be finished" , "Final part of play/film/etc" , "Ending of film" , "Final resolution (of play, film, etc)" , "Last part (of play, etc) in which all is explained" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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