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Connoisseurs, one hundred with terrible congestion (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cognoscenti

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

'one hundred with terrible congestion' is the wordplay.
'one hundred' becomes 'c' (Roman numeral).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'terrible' indicates anagramming the letters.
'congestion' is an anagram of 'ognoscenti'.
'c'+'ognoscenti'='COGNOSCENTI'

(Other definitions for cognoscenti that I've seen before include "Well-informed people" , "Informed experts" , "Subject experts" , "discerning experts?" , "Sophisticates" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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