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One helping your studies of wild trout (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tutor

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'one helping your studies' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'wild trout' is the wordplay.
'wild' is an anagram indicator.
'trout' is an anagram of 'TUTOR'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for tutor that I've seen before include "He shows us the way" , "train" , "Private educator" , "School" , "class leader" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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