Aging hosts are somewhat eccentric - in comparative terms (2,6,2)
I believe the answer is:
as things go
'comparative terms' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'aging hosts are somewhat eccentric in' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'are' could be 'a' (short for 'are', historical unit of measurement) and 'a' is found in the answer.
'in' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
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I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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