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Graduates penning article pronounced artist to be calculating individual (13)

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I believe the answer is:

mathematician

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'individual' is the definition.
(mathematician is a kind of individual)

'graduates penning article pronounced artist to be calculating' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'article' could be 'the' (the definite article) and 'the' is located in the answer.
'graduates' could be 'mama' (more than one holder of a Master of Arts degree) and 'mama' is found in the leftover letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for mathematician that I've seen before include "Eg, Euclid, Fermat or seven down" , "Number specialist" , "Eg, Leonhard Euler" , "Dealer in numbers" , "student engaged with combinatorics?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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