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Obtain in notedly legal fashion (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elicit

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'obtain' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'notedly legal fashion' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'legal' could be 'licit' (similar in meaning) and 'licit' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for elicit that I've seen before include "Draw out or bring forth" , "Bring out - evoke" , "Extract" , "Draw out (response, information etc)" , "Brings something out into the open" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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