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What might be wide court passage (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

extract

'passage' is the definition.
(extract is a kind of passage)

'what might be wide court' is the wordplay.
'what might be wide' becomes 'extra' (a cricket extra might be wide).
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'extra'+'ct'='EXTRACT'

(Other definitions for extract that I've seen before include "Short excerpt" , "Draw out - distillation" , "(Piece) remove(d)" , "Pull out as with tooth (7)" , "short passage from a book" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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