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Religious scholar gets talk cut short (5)

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I believe the answer is:

rabbi

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'religious scholar' is the definition.
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'talk cut short' is the wordplay.
'talk' becomes 'rab' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cut' means to remove the last letter.
'short' becomes 'bit'.
'bit' with its last letter taken away is 'bi'.
'rab'+'bi'='RABBI'

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(Other definitions for rabbi that I've seen before include "Religious person" , "Leader of worshippers" , "Blue" , "Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation" , "Jewish religious teacher" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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