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Managed to get reference suspect lied about (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elicited

'managed to get' is the definition.
(to elicit something is to get it or bring it forth)

'reference suspect lied about' is the wordplay.
'reference' becomes 'cite' (to cite is to mention or quote).
'suspect' indicates an anagram (a suspicious or unusual spelling).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lied' is an anagram of 'elid'.
'cite' put into 'elid' is 'ELICITED'.

(Other definitions for elicited that I've seen before include "Provoked" , "Enkindled, drew out" , "drawn out" , "Drew out, evoked" , "Drew meaning or response from" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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