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One of the subjects reviews The Imposter outside the capital (5)

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I believe the answer is:

maths

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'one of the subjects' is the definition.
'maths' can be an answer for 'subjects' (math is a kind of subject). I'm not sure about the 'one of the' bit.

'reviews the imposter outside the capital' is the wordplay.
'reviews' is a reversal indicator (view the letters another way).
'the imposter' becomes 'sham' ('sham' can be a synonym of 'imposter').
'outside' indicates putting letters inside.
'capital' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'the' is 't'.
'sham' going around 't' is 'shtam'.
'shtam' back-to-front is 'MATHS'.

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(Other definitions for maths that I've seen before include "Numbers subject" , "Adding and subtraction, etc" , "Study of numbers and sums" , "Algebra, geometry, calculus etc (abbr)" , "Subject involving figures (abbr)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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