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Medic in film about strangely shy Scotsman (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

physician

'medic' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'film about strangely shy scotsman' is the wordplay.
'film' becomes 'pic' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'strangely' indicates anagramming the letters.
'scotsman' becomes 'ian'.
'shy' is an anagram of 'hys'.
'pic' enclosing 'hys' is 'physic'.
'physic'+'ian'='PHYSICIAN'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for physician that I've seen before include "Medic" , "A doctor, as in ''........, heal thyself''" , "Licensed medical practitioner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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