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Working back with Spooner? No good for nobody! (3-6)

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I believe the answer is:

non-person

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'for nobody' is the definition.
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'working back with spooner? no good' is the wordplay.
'working back' becomes 'nn' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'no good' is an anagram indicator (no good can mean faulty or defective).
'spooner' with letters rearranged gives 'onperso'.
'nn' enclosing 'onperso' is 'NON-PERSON'.

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(Other definitions for non-person that I've seen before include "Way out" , "Celebrity now in obscurity" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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