ANY CLUE WHERE THE ANSWER IS ONE OF THE WORDS IN THE CLUE ITSELF (EXCEPT THE DEFINITION) (?)

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Hexes and talking trees guard Middle-Earth and close off the entrances of Camelot and Earthsea

Hexes - def
and - connector
talking trees - ENTS
guard - containment
middle eaRth - _R_
AND, close off [delete ending] - AN_
the entrances of Camelot and Earthsea - C_+E_

ENT(_R_+AN_+C_+E_)S = ENTRANCES = def. Hexes (verb)

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9690 Hexes and talking trees guard Middle-Earth and close off the entrances of Camelot and Earthsea Hexes - def
and - connector
talking trees - ENTS
guard - containment
middle eaRth - _R_
AND, close off [delete ending] - AN_
the entrances of Camelot and Earthsea - C_+E_

ENT(_R_+AN_+C_+E_)S = ENTRANCES = def. Hexes (verb)
rpl 2
9682 No, it was rejected by Germany half-finished. What’s missing? (10) DE (Germany) + (half-) FINIshed + TI,ON< (was rejected) = DEFINITION (i.e. What’s missing?)

The answer, indeed, is one of the words in “THE CLUE ITSELF (EXCEPT THE DEFINITION)”
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