Legal support protecting teacher (9)
I believe the answer is:
statutory
'legal support protecting teacher' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'legal support protecting teacher' is the wordplay.
'legal support' becomes 'stay' (court order delaying something).
'protecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are held or protected).
'teacher' becomes 'tutor' (tutor is a kind of teacher).
'stay' placed around 'tutor' is 'STATUTORY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for statutory that I've seen before include "Relating to written law" , "Legally prescribed" , "Created by law" , "Enshrined in law" , "Legal" .)