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Old orator blocks offensive revolutionary teacher (8)

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I believe the answer is:

educator

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'teacher' is the definition.
(someone who educates)

'old orator blocks offensive revolutionary' is the wordplay.
'old orator' becomes 'cato' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'blocks' indicates putting letters inside (the inside letters form a 'blockage').
'offensive' becomes 'rude'.
'revolutionary' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'rude' backwards is 'edur'.
'cato' put into 'edur' is 'EDUCATOR'.

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(Other definitions for educator that I've seen before include "Instructor" , "Trainer, teacher" , "Teacher, lecturer" , "master, say" , "school worker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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