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Court's disputatious figure once dropping ecstasy with mere criminal (7)

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mcenroe

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'court's disputatious figure' is the definition.
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'once dropping ecstasy with mere criminal' is the wordplay.
'dropping' suggests deleting specific letters.
'ecstasy' becomes 'E' (informal term for the drug).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'criminal' indicates anagramming the letters.
'once' with 'e' taken out is 'onc'.
'onc' put after 'mere' is 'mereonc'.
'mereonc' is an anagram of 'MCENROE'.

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(Other definitions for mcenroe that I've seen before include "he's noted for being controversial" , "John --, US tennis player" , "Tennis star" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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