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Professor Bill a trained medic (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

academic

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'professor' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
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'bill a trained medic' is the wordplay.
'bill' becomes 'ac' (short for account).
'trained' is an anagram indicator (to train can mean to grow something into a shape).
'medic' with letters rearranged gives 'demic'.
'ac'+'a'+'demic'='ACADEMIC'

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(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Associated with places of higher learning" , "Of theoretical interest, or scholarly" , "having no bearing on the situation" , "Scholarly - unrealistic" , "This person may be a professor" .)

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