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[hankir]

Help appreciated.

15. Resident alien bottles expression of joy? That's understating things (7)
ME?OTI?

The only word that fits is meiotic.

Don't know if that is correct. Cannot parse the clue to this answer.

[dr b]

metic, "(in ancient Greece) a resident alien in a city, subject to a special tax"

io, "Of invocation, or expressing joy or triumph or grief"

[hankir]

Thanks dr b.



That completes the puzzle.