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Drunk and terribly irate learned types (8)

Ross

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literati

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'types' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Bookish types ' mean 'literati' so perhaps 'types' could also mean 'literati')

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(Other definitions for literati that I've seen before include "scholars" , "The bookish intelligentsia" , "Men and women of letters" , "Learned people, men of letters" , "they devour a lot" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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