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Opportunity to get around court for drug supplier (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

doctor

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'drug supplier' is the definition.
'doctor' can be an answer for 'drug' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'supplier' bit.

'opportunity to get around court' is the wordplay.
'opportunity' becomes 'door' (when one door closes another opens).
'to get around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'door' placed around 'ct' is 'DOCTOR'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for doctor that I've seen before include "Tamper with - falsify - one of the 14 films" , "One seeing cases" , "Medical worker or holder of highest university degree" , "Ship's cook" , "Onshore breeze" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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