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Substitute magistrate's covering Long Island (7)

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I believe the answer is:

relieve

'substitute' is the definition.
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'magistrate's covering long island' is the wordplay.
'magistrate' becomes 'reeve' (I've seen this before).
'covering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'long' becomes 'l'.
'island' becomes 'i'.
'l'+'i'='li'
'reeve' going around 'li' is 'RELIEVE'.

(Other definitions for relieve that I've seen before include "Break the sameness of" , "Alleviate (eg, pain)" , "Take a job over from - bring aid" , "raise a siege" , "Soothe" .)

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