Judge comes across cases familiar to Scandinavians? (6)
I believe the answer is:
fjords
'familiar to scandinavians?' is the definition.
(fjords are geographical features of Scandinavia)
'judge comes across cases' is the wordplay.
'judge' becomes 'j'.
'comes across' becomes 'fords' (to ford is to cross a river).
'cases' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'j' placed inside 'fords' is 'FJORDS'.
(Other definitions for fjords that I've seen before include "rocky inlets" , "Scandinavian inlets" , "Norwegian inlets of the sea" , "Rock-bound inlets" , "More than one Channel" .)