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Rhetorician finds gold on a hill (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orator

'rhetorician' is the definition.
(I know that rhetorician can be written as orator)

'gold on a hill' is the wordplay.
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hill' becomes 'tor' (tor is a kind of hill).
'or'+'a'+'tor'='ORATOR'

'finds' is the link.

(Other definitions for orator that I've seen before include "He addresses" , "A fluent public speaker" , "An impressive public speaker" , "A gifted public speaker" , "He lectures" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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