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Perfectionist must see agreement is in Italian (8)

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I believe the answer is:

idealist

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'perfectionist' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'agreement is in italian' is the wordplay.
'agreement' becomes 'deal' (deal is a kind of agreement).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'italian' becomes 'it' (abbreviation for Italian).
'deal'+'is'='dealis'
'dealis' going into 'it' is 'IDEALIST'.

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(Other definitions for idealist that I've seen before include "philosopher" , "Utopian" , "Detail is about person with aspirations toward perfection (8)" , "Person with high and unselfish standards" , "Details I accumulated about person with best intentions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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