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Pilgrim's greeting, welcoming a couple of judges (5)

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I believe the answer is:

hajji

'pilgrim's' is the definition.
(hajji is a kind of pilgrim)

'greeting welcoming a couple of judges' is the wordplay.
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'welcoming' is an insertion indicator (in sense of 'inviting in').
'couple of' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'judges' becomes 'j' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'j' duplicated is 'jj'.
'a'+'jj'='ajj'
'hi' going around 'ajj' is 'HAJJI'.

(Another definition for hajji that I've seen is " Pilgrim".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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