Tyrant upheld nonsense to support suppressing court (8)
I believe the answer is:
dictator
'tyrant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'upheld nonsense to support suppressing court' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is within the answer.
'court' could be 'ct' (abbreviation used in road names) and 'ct' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dictator that I've seen before include "Such as Saddam Hussein" , "Authoritarian, tyrant" , "Eg, Stalin" , "Absolute ruler (Great in Chaplin film)" , "one who brooks no opposition" .)