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Supporter upset with corrupt trial of judges (8)

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arbitral

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'supporter upset with corrupt trial of judges' is the definition.
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'supporter upset with corrupt trial' is the wordplay.
'supporter' becomes 'bra' (a bra gives support to breasts).
'upset' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'corrupt' indicates an anagram (a corrupted spelling of the word).
'bra' reversed gives 'arb'.
'trial' is an anagram of 'itral'.
'arb'+'itral'='ARBITRAL'

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(Other definitions for arbitral that I've seen before include "of judges in Scotland" , "Relating to independent settling of disputes" , "Relating to dispute-settling" .)

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