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Yo-yo coils tangled and others rewound (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oscillate

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'yo-yo coils tangled and others rewound' is the definition.
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'coils tangled and others rewound' is the wordplay.
'tangled' indicates an anagram.
'and others' becomes 'etal' (short for 'et alia', 'and others' in Latin).
'rewound' is a reversal indicator.
'etal' in reverse letter order is 'late'.
'coils' anagrammed gives 'oscil'.
'oscil'+'late'='OSCILLATE'

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(Other definitions for oscillate that I've seen before include "sway" , "Swing back and forth" , "Swing like a pendulum" , "Move or swing from side to side regularly" , "shake" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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