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No learner for newly-acclaimed teacher (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

academic

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'teacher' is the definition.
(I know that academic is a type of academic)

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(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Intellectual" , "Of theoretical interest, or scholarly" , "fellow" , "Scholarly as opposed to practical (8)" , "Unimportant" .)

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