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Nuts roasted, to about hundred degrees (10)

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I believe the answer is:

doctorates

'degrees' is the definition.
(doctorate is a kind of degree)

'nuts roasted to about hundred' is the wordplay.
'nuts' indicates an anagram (nuts can mean crazy).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'hundred' becomes 'c' (Roman numeral).
'roasted'+'to'='roastedto'
'roastedto' with letters rearranged gives 'dotorates'.
'dotorates' enclosing 'c' is 'DOCTORATES'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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