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Annoy a court, not very careful about details (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

exact

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'annoy a court not very careful about details' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'annoy a court' is the wordplay.
'annoy' becomes 'ex' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'ex'+'a'+'ct'='EXACT'

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(Other definitions for exact that I've seen before include "As a right, demand" , "Meticulous" , "Demand, extort" , "Not approximate, precise" , "on the money" .)

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