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Caution misplaced in unusual deal to do with schooling (11)

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I believe the answer is:

educational

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'do with schooling' is the definition.
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'caution misplaced in unusual deal' is the wordplay.
'misplaced' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong places).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unusual' is an anagram indicator.
'caution' with letters rearranged gives 'ucation'.
'deal' with letters rearranged gives 'edal'.
'ucation' placed inside 'edal' is 'EDUCATIONAL'.

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for educational that I've seen before include "Providing knowledge" , "A docile aunt (anag) - instructive" , "Didactic" , "as an aid to learning" , "Academic" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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