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Speaker pretty terse before start of session (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tweeter

'speaker' is the definition.
(I know that Tweeter is a type of speaker)

'pretty terse before start of session' is the wordplay.
'pretty terse' becomes 'twee' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'before' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'start of' means to remove the last letter.
'session' becomes 'term'.
'term' with its final letter taken away is 'ter'.
'twee'+'ter'='TWEETER'

(Other definitions for tweeter that I've seen before include "one sending message?" , "Chirpy type" , "Person sending a messages of fewer than 140 characters" , "one delivering a short message?" , "Message sender" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent and The Times.
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