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Those helpful to a motherless man during strikes? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

hints

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'those helpful to a motherless' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'man during strikes?' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'N' (knight, a man in chess).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'strikes?' becomes 'hits' ('hit' can be a synonym of 'strike').
'n' going within 'hits' is 'HINTS'.

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