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Speaker from Dartmoor, a Tory (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orator

'speaker' is the definition.
(orator is a kind of speaker)

'from dartmoor a tory' is the wordplay.
'from' indicates the answer is hidden within the clue.
'ORATOR' is hidden in the letters of 'dartmoor a tory'.

(Other definitions for orator that I've seen before include "Formal speech maker" , "Rhetorician" , "I declaim" , "One making one across" , "A Rhetorical talker or speech-maker" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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