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Advocate has foremost of degrees in English Language? (7)

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I believe the answer is:

endorse

'advocate' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'foremost of degrees in english language?' is the wordplay.
'foremost of' indicates taking the first letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'language?' becomes 'norse' (Norse is an example).
The first letter of 'degrees' is 'd'.
'e'+'norse'='enorse'
'd' going into 'enorse' is 'ENDORSE'.

'has' is the link.

(Other definitions for endorse that I've seen before include "Pass" , "Approve or underwrite" , "Give public approval of (something)" , "Sore end (anag.)" , "Red ones (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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