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Making prisoners upset in court? About time (12)

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I believe the answer is:

construction

'making' is the definition.
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'prisoners upset in court? about time' is the wordplay.
'prisoners' becomes 'cons' (**).
'upset' is an anagram indicator.
'about' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'time' becomes 't'.
'in'+'court'='incourt'
'incourt' with letters rearranged gives 'ruction'.
'ruction' put after 't' is 'truction'.
'cons'+'truction'='CONSTRUCTION'

(Other definitions for construction that I've seen before include "Act of building" , "Industry of erecting buildings" , "Building; interpretation" , "Process of erecting buildings" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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