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Scientist’s spirit broken by school of players (7)
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The answer is Scientist’s, namely the physicist Faraday. Take FAY (a spirit, as in fairy) and put RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a school of players) inside it — signalled by 'broken by' — splitting FAY around RADA to give FA-RADA-Y.