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Teacher being in bar inside dive (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

headmaster

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'teacher' is the definition.
(I know that headmaster is a type of teacher)

'being in bar inside dive' is the wordplay.
'being in' becomes 'mas' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bar' becomes 't' (T-bar is a part of a ski lift).
'inside' indicates putting letters inside.
'dive' becomes 'header' (a header is a dive forwards).
'mas'+'t'='mast'
'mast' placed into 'header' is 'HEADMASTER'.

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(Other definitions for headmaster that I've seen before include "Top (male) teacher" , "Principal" , "School manager" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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