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Old teacher’s concession welcome, by the way (7)

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I believe the answer is:

sophist

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'old teacher's concession welcome by the way' is the definition.
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'concession welcome by the way' is the wordplay.
'concession' becomes 'sop' (sop is a kind of concession).
'welcome' becomes 'hi' (both can be used as a greeting).
'by the way' becomes 'st' (I've seen this in other clues).
'sop'+'hi'+'st'='SOPHIST'

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(Other definitions for sophist that I've seen before include "One using clever but fallacious arguments" , "philosopher" , "One who uses clever but false argument" , "one might plausibly argue" , "Clever but fallacious reasoner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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