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Angel out round university with silver tongue (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

language

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

'angel out round university with silver' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'university' becomes 'u' (abbreviation for university).
'with' indicates putting letters inside.
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'angel' anagrammed gives 'lange'.
'lange' going around 'u' is 'langue'.
'langue' enclosing 'ag' is 'LANGUAGE'.

(Other definitions for language that I've seen before include "See 23" , "Glue a nag, wrongly, to speak it" , "Irish, English, French, for instance" , "talk" , "System of words used by a group" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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