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Criminal isn't idly crossing court, clearly (10)

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I believe the answer is:

distinctly

'clearly' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'criminal isn't idly crossing court' is the wordplay.
'criminal' indicates an anagram.
'crossing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'court' becomes 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names).
'isnt'+'idly'='isntidly'
'isntidly' with letters rearranged gives 'distinly'.
'distinly' placed around 'ct' is 'DISTINCTLY'.

(Another definition for distinctly that I've seen is " Clearly".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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