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Turners production of French and English articles (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lathe

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'turners production' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'french and english articles' is the wordplay.
'french and english' becomes 'l' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'articles' becomes 'a the' ('a' and 'the', indefinite and definite articles).
'l'+'athe'='LATHE'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for lathe that I've seen before include "Wood-shaping machine" , "piece of machinery" , "Machine for turning and shaping wood etc" , "Turning tool" , "craftsman's machine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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