Femme fatale forgetting ultimate sacred word (6)

Times Cryptic #29173 | 19 Across | 2025-03-10
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MANTRAp; Collins has this as American English, usually hyphenated. Interestingly, the book Mantrap, by Sinclair Lewis, and the silent film based on it, directed by Victor Fleming, who later co-helmed Gone with the Wind, are both styled as a single word.

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