Mechanical women deviously set mob against defender? (7)

I believe the answer is:

fembots

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'against defender?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'mechanical women deviously set mob' is the wordplay.
'mechanical women' becomes 'f' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'deviously' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'set'+'mob'='setmob'
'setmob' anagrammed gives 'embots'.
'f'+'embots'='FEMBOTS'

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

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