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Surprisingly enter into custody (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

retention

'custody' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'surprisingly enter into' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' is an anagram indicator (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'enter'+'into'='enterinto'
'enterinto' is an anagram of 'RETENTION'.

(Other definitions for retention that I've seen before include "Enter into custody" , "Failure to eliminate a substance from the body" , "maintenance" , "Keeping hold (of something)" , "memory" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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