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Boy king, one talking tediously about one's schooling (7)

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I believe the answer is:

tuition

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'schooling' is the definition.
(both can mean teaching)

'boy king one talking tediously about one's' is the wordplay.
'boy king' becomes 'Tut' (Tutankhamun).
'one talking tediously' becomes 'ion' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'tut'+'ion'='tution'
'tution' enclosing 'i' is 'TUITION'.

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(Other definitions for tuition that I've seen before include "Teaching, instruction" , "Training" , "Teaching, often one-to-one" , "Personal coaching" , "practice" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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