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When given the centre court, behaves (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

acts

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'behaves' is the definition.
(acting is a kind of behaving)

'when given the centre court' is the wordplay.
'when' becomes 'as' (eg 'when I walked' means 'as I walked').
'given' is an insertion indicator.
'the centre court' becomes 'ct' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'as' going around 'ct' is 'ACTS'.

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(Other definitions for acts that I've seen before include "the entertainment for a revue?" , "Follower of John" , "5th NT book" , "Parliaments pass them" , "exerts influence" .)

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