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Who's beautiful? A lecturer is! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adonis

'who's beautiful?' is the definition.
(mythical beautiful youth)

'a lecturer is' is the wordplay.
'lecturer' becomes 'don' (don can mean an academic).
'a'+'don'+'is'='ADONIS'

(Other definitions for adonis that I've seen before include "extremely handsome chap" , "Handsome fellow" , "ideal man" , "handsome lad" , "No aids (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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