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Believe fit to be great (12)

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I believe the answer is:

considerable

'great' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'believe fit' is the wordplay.
'believe' becomes 'consider' (considering is a kind of believing).
'fit' becomes 'able' ('able' can be similar in meaning to 'fit'**).
'consider'+'able'='CONSIDERABLE'

'to be' is the link.

(Other definitions for considerable that I've seen before include "Significant" , "Major" , "Fairly large or numerous" , "Great" , "worth entertaining?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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