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Greek detectives turning up to apprehend men (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

doric

'greek' is the definition.
(Doric is an example)

'detectives turning up to apprehend men' is the wordplay.
'detectives' becomes 'cid'.
'turning up' is a reversal indicator.
'to apprehend' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'men' becomes 'or' (I've seen this in other clues).
'cid' reversed gives 'dic'.
'dic' placed around 'or' is 'DORIC'.

(Other definitions for doric that I've seen before include "One classical order in architecture" , "Style of column" , "Denoting a classic Greek style" , "Type of classical architecture" , "Type of column" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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