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Climb onto Supreme Court with beer (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scale

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'climb' is the definition.
(I know that scale is a more specific form of the action climb)

'supreme court with beer' is the wordplay.
'supreme court' becomes 'sc' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'beer' becomes 'ale' (type of beer).
'sc'+'ale'='SCALE'

'onto' is the link.
This may not be right. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for scale that I've seen before include "Climb, or series of notes in music" , "See 23" , "Climb; overlapping plate" , "Relative extent as of laces" , "Series of notes in an octave" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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