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Evidently striking old people? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

hittites

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'old people?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'evidently striking' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'striking' could be 'hit' (synonyms) and 'hit' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for hittites that I've seen is " Old people".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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