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Prosecutes us wrongly for shortage of dues (4)

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I believe the answer is:

sues

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'prosecutes' is the definition.
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'us wrongly for shortage of dues' is the wordplay.
'wrongly' is an anagram indicator.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'shortage of dues' becomes 'es' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'us' with letters rearranged gives 'su'.
'su'+'es'='SUES'

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(Other definitions for sues that I've seen before include "Institutes legal proceedings against" , "Takes to court" , "Takes legal action against" , "Prosecutes" , "Takes a case against" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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