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Drunks consuming port with his specious old teachers (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sophists

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'specious old teachers' is the definition.
'sophists' can be an answer for 'teachers' (I've seen this before). I am not certain of the 'specious old' bit.

'drunks consuming port with his' is the wordplay.
'drunks' becomes 'sots' ('sot' can be a synonym of 'drunk'**).
'consuming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'port' becomes 'p'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'p'+'his'='phis'
'sots' enclosing 'phis' is 'SOPHISTS'.

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(Other definitions for sophists that I've seen before include "They use subtle but misleading reasoning" , "teachers" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times.
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