Accidentally in court after awful tips from lawyer yesterday (10)

I believe the answer is:

indirectly

'accidentally' is the definition.

'in court after awful tips from lawyer yesterday' is the wordplay.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'awful' becomes 'dire' (synonyms).
'tips from' suggests taking the first letters (I've seen 'tip from' mean this).
The initial letters of 'lawyer yesterday' is 'ly'.
'ct' after 'dire' is 'direct'.
'in'+'direct'+'ly'='INDIRECTLY'

(Another definition for indirectly that I've seen is " Obliquely".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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