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Conversations with a girl, a boy and some pedagogues (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dialogues

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'conversations' is the definition.
(dialogue is a kind of conversation)

'girl a boy and some pedagogues' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'girl' could be 'di' (short for Diane or Diana) and 'di' is present in the answer.
'boy' could be 'al' and 'al' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'with a' is the link.

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(Another definition for dialogues that I've seen is " conversations".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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