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Graduate and teacher describing brand-new sport (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

badminton

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'sport' is the definition.
(badminton is a kind of sport)

'graduate and teacher describing brand-new' is the wordplay.
'graduate' becomes 'ba'.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'teacher' becomes 'don' (don is a kind of teacher).
'describing' is an insertion indicator (describe can mean to form the outline of).
'brand new' becomes 'mint' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'don' going around 'mint' is 'dminton'.
'ba'+'dminton'='BADMINTON'

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(Other definitions for badminton that I've seen before include "Racket game with shuttlecock" , "Game with shuttlecocks" , "A sport; Beaufort seat" , "Game using shuttlecock" , "Court game" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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