Produced a publication - gets taken to court (6)
I believe the answer is:
issued
'produced' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'a publication gets taken to court' is the wordplay.
'a publication' becomes 'issue' (issue is a kind of publication).
'gets' says to put letters next to each other.
'taken to court' becomes 'd' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'issue'+'d'='ISSUED'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for issued that I've seen before include "Having come out" , "Circulated, a statement perhaps" , "released" , "Sent out or distributed" , "Put out (a publication)" .)