Related Clues:

• Read half of a Scott novel and notice central characters are mechanical
• Embrocation with no name working like a machine
• So Hal was appropriate, according to The Listener!
• Like a Dalek's pinch of the ear
• Mug on old jerk like a Dalek?
• Steal books and one gets caught — it's mechanical
• Of mechanical movements
• Like an automaton
• Of automated movements
• Automation in charge of stiff type
• Like some of Michael Jackson's moves
• Such an inhuman way to ensure work gets done
• Deprive of an ear working mechanically
• Automaton-like
• Translation of crib too mechanical