Cryptic crossword clue
Finished up as a student by performing a duet in drag, perhaps 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word GRADUATED

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The straight part
We know that "finished up as a student" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case finished up as a student = graduated.
The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.
This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does GRADUATED mean?

GRADUATED verb
  1. To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
  2. To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
  3. To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
  4. To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
  5. To change gradually.
  6. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
  7. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  8. To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
GRADUATED adjective
  1. In steps.
  2. Having a university degree; having completed training.
  3. Marked with graduations.
  4. Arranged by grade, level, degree.
  5. Increasing in rate with the taxable base.
  6. Of a tail, having successively longer feathers towards the middle.

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