Shed first tear in court over writing (6)
I believe the answer is:
script
'writing' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'shed first tear in court over' is the wordplay.
'first' indicates taking the first letters.
'tear' becomes 'rip' (ripping is a kind of tearing).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'court over' becomes 'ct' (I am not sure about the 'over' bit.**).
The initial letter of 'shed' is 's'.
'rip' going into 'ct' is 'cript'.
's'+'cript'='SCRIPT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for script that I've seen before include "letters" , "Handwriting, play text" , "Text of play, film etc" , "Hand" , "Performance text" .)