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10 D. To summarise: opening up around noon, embassy sees off opponents (11) ??c?psu?ate

Incapsulate or encapsulate?

Thanks.

ENCAPSULATE

Opening up - SPACE [back] around Noon N, embassy sees off opponents (cons) ULATE

Thanks, I was trying to do something with 'consulate' but made a hash of it!

Not that it matters, but there's no indicator for reversal of Space (I don't think around will do), so I think it's actually Space as an anagram around noon - anag indicator is 'up'.

Up is a reversal indicator.

Mamya's parsing looks bang on to me.

Ah, my fault, a thousand apologies. Up can be an anag indicator but I stupidly read the clue as an across.
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No need, good to discuss them.

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