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Historic works surrounding small office of medical specialist (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chiropodist

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'medical specialist' is the definition.
(chiropodist is a kind of medical specialist)

'historic works surrounding small office of' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'works' could be 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'work') and 'is' is found in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for chiropodist that I've seen before include "Specialist in the treatment of feet" , "Treater of feet" , "corn cutter" , "Foot specialist" , "Foot doctor" .)

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