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Mostly genuine over the German University post (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reader

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'university post' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'mostly genuine over the german' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter (most but not all of the word).
'genuine' becomes 'real' (associated in meaning).
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'the german' becomes 'der' ('the' in German).
'real' with its final letter taken away is 'rea'.
'rea'+'der'='READER'

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(Other definitions for reader that I've seen before include "Publisher's selector" , "member of the university" , "Person studying a book" , "University academic" , "Text book -- red ear (anag)" .)

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