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Inexperienced lawyer volunteers unvarnished facts (3,4)

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raw data

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'inexperienced lawyer volunteers unvarnished facts' is the definition.
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'inexperienced lawyer volunteers' is the wordplay.
'inexperienced' becomes 'raw' (similar in meaning).
'lawyer' becomes 'da' (abbreviation for District Attorney).
'volunteers' becomes 'TA' (abbreviation for Territorial Army).
'raw'+'da'+'ta'='RAW DATA'

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(Other definitions for raw data that I've seen before include "unchecked information" , "What statisticians must work on" , "information being analysed?" , "unchecked stats" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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