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Tease the silly art lover (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

aesthete

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

'tease the silly' is the wordplay.
'silly' is an anagram indicator.
'tease'+'the'='teasethe'
'teasethe' with letters rearranged gives 'AESTHETE'.

(Other definitions for aesthete that I've seen before include "person of culture" , "Arts lover" , "Person seeing beauty in art" , "Someone claiming special knowledge of beauty" , "One sensitive to art and beauty" .)

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