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Give some instruction to the attendants (5)

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I believe the answer is:

train

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'attendants' is the definition.
(train can mean attendants following a royal)

'give some instruction to the' is the wordplay.
'give' becomes 'ra' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'some' says to take the centre.
'instruction' becomes 'training' (I've seen this before).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
The middle letters of 'training' are 'in'.
'ra'+'in'='rain'
'rain' after 't' is 'TRAIN'.

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(Other definitions for train that I've seen before include "Teach; followers" , "Flying Scotsman, e.g." , "Locomotive plus carriages" , "Teach (someone) a skill" , "tutor" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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