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Erudite social set (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

literati

(Other definitions for literati that I've seen before include "Well-educated readers" , "The intelligentsia interested in writing and reading" , "Learned people, men of letters" , "Great minds" , "Men and women of letters" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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