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Reportedly selected Oxford college illustrated (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pictorial

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'illustrated' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'reportedly selected oxford college' is the wordplay.
'reportedly' shows a homophone (sound like).
'selected' becomes 'picked' (picking is a kind of selecting).
'oxford college' becomes 'orial' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'picked' sounds like 'pict'.
'pict'+'orial'='PICTORIAL'

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(Other definitions for pictorial that I've seen before include "Illustrated" , "Magazine" , "in photographs" , "Clip a riot (anag) - graphic" .)

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