Potential candidates aggravated boss with spiel (9)
I believe the answer is:
possibles
'potential candidates' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'aggravated boss with spiel' is the wordplay.
'aggravated' indicates anagramming the letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'boss' after 'spiel' is 'spielboss'.
'spielboss' with letters rearranged gives 'POSSIBLES'.
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