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Devise a scheme, say, to support son using cars? (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hatchbacks

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'cars?' is the definition.
(hatchback is a kind of car)

'devise a scheme say to support son' is the wordplay.
'devise' becomes 'hatch' (as in hatching a plan).
'a scheme say' becomes 'back' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to support' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters hold others up).
'son' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation for son).
'hatch'+'back'+'s'='HATCHBACKS'

'using' is the link.

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(Another definition for hatchbacks that I've seen is " vehicles".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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