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Variant non-U creeds not officially restricted (10)

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I believe the answer is:

uncensored

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'not officially restricted' is the definition.
The answer and definition are different parts of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs sometimes mean the same thing.

'variant non-u creeds' is the wordplay.
'variant' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'variant of' mean this).
'non'+'u'+'creeds'='nonucreeds'
'nonucreeds' anagrammed gives 'UNCENSORED'.

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(Other definitions for uncensored that I've seen before include "adults?" , "Complete" , "As British theatre after 1968" , "Not touched by a blue pencil?" , "Not blue-pencilled" .)

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