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Student drawing the wrong way in mid-speech (7)

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I believe the answer is:

trainee

'student' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'drawing the wrong way in mid-speech' is the wordplay.
'drawing' becomes 'art' (drawing is an art).
'the wrong way' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'mid' indicates the central letters (mid- can mean the middle of something).
The centre of 'speech' is 'ee'.
'art' back-to-front is 'tra'.
'tra'+'in'+'ee'='TRAINEE'

(Other definitions for trainee that I've seen before include "Person under instruction" , "novice" , "Student" , "One learning a job" , "encountered bad weather in driving area" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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