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Scientist is up in soccer surprisingly (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

copernicus

'scientist' is the definition.
(I know that Copernicus has the occupation physicist)

'up in soccer surprisingly' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' indicates an anagram (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'up'+'in'+'soccer'='upinsoccer'
'upinsoccer' anagrammed gives 'COPERNICUS'.

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for copernicus that I've seen before include "Polish scholar" , "16th century astronomer" , "He said we move in a ring" , "Famous Prussian" , "Polish astronomer d. 1543" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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