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Baronet welcomes alternative school soup (7)

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I believe the answer is:

bortsch

'soup' is the definition.
(bortsch is a kind of soup)

'baronet welcomes alternative school' is the wordplay.
'baronet' becomes 'bt'.
'welcomes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'invites in').
'alternative' becomes 'or'.
'school' becomes 'sch' (common abbreviation).
'bt' going around 'or' is 'bort'.
'bort'+'sch'='BORTSCH'

(Another definition for bortsch that I've seen is " soup".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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