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Woman's without very strong transmission components (5)

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diffs

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'transmission components' is the definition.
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'woman's without very strong' is the wordplay.
'woman's' becomes 'Dis' (Di is short for Diana).
'without' means one lot of letters goes inside another ('without' can be similar in meaning to 'outside').
'very strong' becomes 'ff' (musical abbreviation for fortissimo, 'very strong').
'dis' placed around 'ff' is 'DIFFS'.

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