One's present in spirit in lecture? (8)
I believe the answer is:
moralise
'lecture?' is the definition.
(moralising is a kind of lecturing)
'one's present in spirit' is the wordplay.
'one's' becomes 'I's' (Roman numeral).
'present in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'spirit' becomes 'morale' (I've seen this in another clue).
'is' inserted into 'morale' is 'MORALISE'.
'in' acts as a link.
(Another definition for moralise that I've seen is " Preach".)
I've seen this clue in The Times.
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