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Planned key medical after school (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

schemed

'planned' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'key medical after school' is the wordplay.
'key' becomes 'e' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'medical' becomes 'med' (common abbreviation).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'school' becomes 'sch'.
'e'+'med'='emed'
'emed' put after 'sch' is 'SCHEMED'.

(Other definitions for schemed that I've seen before include "contrived" , "Intrigued" , "Conspired" , "Devised plans" , "Cooked up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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