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A male or female court, getting in deep, perhaps not surprising (2,8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

as expected

'not surprising' is the definition.
(not unexpected)

'a male or female court getting in deep perhaps' is the wordplay.
'male or female' becomes 'sex' (a person's sex).
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'getting in' indicates putting letters inside.
'perhaps' indicates anagramming the letters.
'deep' anagrammed gives 'peed'.
'ct' going into 'peed' is 'pected'.
'a'+'sex'+'pected'='AS EXPECTED'

(Another definition for as expected that I've seen is " typically".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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