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Adjust or clash with an erudite person (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scholar

'an erudite person' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'adjust or clash' is the wordplay.
'adjust' indicates an anagram.
'or'+'clash'='orclash'
'orclash' with letters rearranged gives 'SCHOLAR'.

'with' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for scholar that I've seen before include "Subject of poem by 1 across" , "university type?" , "Noted academic" , "Student or learned person" , "Academic, schoolboy" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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