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Agreements causing worry between judges (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

treaties

'agreements' is the definition.
(treaty is a kind of agreement)

'worry between judges' is the wordplay.
'worry' becomes 'eat' (eating is a kind of worrying).
'between' indicates putting letters inside.
'judges' becomes 'tries' (trying is a kind of judging).
'eat' going within 'tries' is 'TREATIES'.

'causing' is the link.

(Other definitions for treaties that I've seen before include "Treatise about pacts" , "Written agreements between states" , "Accords" , "Rome and Versailles, for example" , "Treatise on international agreements" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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