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A remarkable thing to see composer accepting honour (8)

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I believe the answer is:

scorcher

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'a remarkable thing' is the definition.
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'composer accepting honour' is the wordplay.
'composer' becomes 'scorer' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'accepting' is an insertion indicator.
'honour' becomes 'ch'.
'scorer' placed around 'ch' is 'SCORCHER'.

'to see' is the link.

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(Other definitions for scorcher that I've seen before include "for example, really fine" , "Day of very hot and sunny weather" , "Very hot day; remarkable thing" , "something remarkable" , "A boiling hot day" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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