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Questionable way to get out information? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

elicit

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'questionable way to get out information?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'way to get out information?' is the wordplay.
'way' becomes 'e' (Compass direction - East).
'to get' says to put letters next to each other.
'out information?' becomes 'licit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'e'+'licit'='ELICIT'

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(Other definitions for elicit that I've seen before include "Draw out, say a response" , "Draw out from, meaning or response" , "Call forth, educe" , "Evoke (a response)" , "Obtain" .)

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