Unable to delete a Font Book Smart Group

I in the middle of making a Final Cut movie that needs some Hindi fonts. I downloaded a few and installed them, and made a smart group in Font Book to keep them all together.
For some reason, the smart group is causing Font Book to freeze. I have manually deleted the fonts I installed from my font user folder but I cannot get rid of the smart group as the moment I click on it Font Book freezes. To make things worse, when I start Final Cut it too crashes!! This is not good. Any help would be appreciated.

I solved the problem by manually deleting the Smart Group from: user/Libary/FontCollections
All seems to be working as it should...

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