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Cooked trout for instructor (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tutor

'for instructor' is the definition.
(tutor is a kind of instructor)

'cooked trout' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'trout' with letters rearranged gives 'TUTOR'.

(Other definitions for tutor that I've seen before include "college teacher" , "train" , "Personal teacher" , "Private instructor" , "Guardian" .)

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