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Home papers rejected by court charge (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

indict

'charge' is the definition.
(indicting is a kind of charging)

'home papers rejected by court' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in'**).
'papers' becomes 'id' (identification papers).
'rejected' says the letters should be written backwards.
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'id' back-to-front is 'di'.
'in'+'di'+'ct'='INDICT'

(Other definitions for indict that I've seen before include "Accuse - sounds like 2 Across" , "Accuse with a crime (US)" , "Make accusation or charge against an accused" , "Make written statement of charge against accused" , "Accuse formally of a crime" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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