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Erudite Professors Or Their Proteges Perhaps Crossword Clue

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noun

• a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

• someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

• a student who holds a scholarship

37%7 Protégés
noun

• A person who is being mentored

30%8 Protégés of the clergy
noun

• someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches

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The Guardian Cryptic20 Feb 2012 Across 11
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