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Plans a school wrestling team adopts (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

schemata

'plans' is the definition.
(schema is a kind of plan)

'a school wrestling team adopts' is the wordplay.
'school' becomes 'sch' (common abbreviation).
'wrestling' indicates an anagram.
'adopts' is an insertion indicator.
'team' is an anagram of '[team]'.
'sch'+'[team]'='sch[team]'
'a' inserted into 'schemta' is 'SCHEMATA'.

(Other definitions for schemata that I've seen before include "diagrams" , "Diagrammatic outlines" , "Plans" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times and The Times.
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