diff --git a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
index 5f94b90ae09..2ea93e610b0 100755
--- a/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
+++ b/Tools/clinic/clinic.py
@@ -3123,9 +3123,7 @@ def closure(f: CConverterClassT) -> CConverterClassT:
         if not kwargs:
             added_f = f
         else:
-            # mypy's special-casing for functools.partial
-            # can't quite grapple with this code here
-            added_f = functools.partial(f, **kwargs)  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            added_f = functools.partial(f, **kwargs)
         if format_unit:
             legacy_converters[format_unit] = added_f
         return f
diff --git a/Tools/requirements-dev.txt b/Tools/requirements-dev.txt
index 8c51293cf66..591baac33c7 100644
--- a/Tools/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/Tools/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Requirements file for external linters and checks we run on
 # Tools/clinic, Tools/cases_generator/, and Tools/peg_generator/ in CI
-mypy==1.6.1
+mypy==1.7.0
 
 # needed for peg_generator:
 types-psutil==5.9.5.17