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Engineers tease the art lover (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aesthete

'art lover' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'engineers tease the' is the wordplay.
'engineers' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'engineer' mean this).
'tease'+'the'='teasethe'
'teasethe' with letters rearranged gives 'AESTHETE'.

(Other definitions for aesthete that I've seen before include "One sensitive to art and beauty" , "Art-lover" , "Person seeing beauty in art" , "Someone claiming special knowledge of beauty" , "One is particularly appreciative of beauty" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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