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Pedant and stoic clash explosively (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scholastic

'pedant' is the definition.
(I know that pedant can be written as scholastic)

'stoic clash explosively' is the wordplay.
'explosively' indicates anagramming the letters.
'stoic'+'clash'='stoicclash'
'stoicclash' is an anagram of 'SCHOLASTIC'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for scholastic that I've seen before include "Relating to education" , "Pertaining to teaching and educational establishments" , "Academic" , "Learned" , "Educative" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent and The Times.
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