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Eccentric witch, old (6)

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I believe the answer is:

weirdo

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'eccentric' is the definition.
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'witch old' is the wordplay.
'witch' becomes 'weird' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'old' becomes 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English).
'weird'+'o'='WEIRDO'

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(Other definitions for weirdo that I've seen before include "Odd fish" , "Informally, an odd or eccentric person" , "queer fish" , "Slang for odd or eccentric person" , "strange character" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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