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Woman’s embraced by awful poseur – one with special powers (9)

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I believe the answer is:

superhero

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'woman's embraced by awful poseur one with special powers' is the definition.
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'woman's embraced by awful poseur' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'her' (her refers to a woman).
'embraced by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'awful' indicates anagramming the letters.
'poseur' with letters rearranged gives 'supero'.
'her' inserted inside 'supero' is 'SUPERHERO'.

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(Other definitions for superhero that I've seen before include "Fantastic character" , "really great guy" , "Her poseur (anag.)" , "Batman, say?" , "lifesaver?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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