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Troubled courts holding record for one creating figures (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sculptor

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'one creating figures' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'troubled courts holding record' is the wordplay.
'troubled' is an anagram indicator.
'holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'record' becomes 'LP' (abbreviation for long play record).
'courts' anagrammed gives 'scutor'.
'scutor' enclosing 'lp' is 'SCULPTOR'.

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(Other definitions for sculptor that I've seen before include "Creator of three-dimensional works of art" , "Epstein,say," , "Maker of figures" , "Does this artist lop crust off?" , "Rodin or Behan" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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