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Force engineers over supporting school planner (7)

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I believe the answer is:

schemer

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'planner' is the definition.
(I know that schemer is a type of planner)

'force engineers over supporting school' is the wordplay.
'force engineers over' becomes 'emer' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'supporting' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'school' becomes 'sch' (abbreviation).
'emer' after 'sch' is 'SCHEMER'.

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(Other definitions for schemer that I've seen before include "one inventing plots" , "Devious type" , "Person who plots" , "One making devious plans" , "Plotter, conspirator" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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