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Agree to go to court about support given to graduate scientist (9)

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subscribe

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'agree to' is the definition.
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'go to court about support given to graduate scientist' is the wordplay.
'go to court' becomes 'sue' (I've seen this in another clue).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'support' becomes 'rib' (type of architectural support).
'given' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'to graduate scientist' becomes 'bsc' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rib' after 'bsc' is 'bscrib'.
'sue' placed around 'bscrib' is 'SUBSCRIBE'.

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(Other definitions for subscribe that I've seen before include "Sign up" , "Agree" , "Receive or obtain regularly" , "Put one's name down as a purchaser" , "Apply (to receive an issue of shares)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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