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Who would place Yankees top? (6)

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'who' is the definition.
(from 'Doctor Who', the famous TV series)

'would place yankees top?' is the wordplay.
'would' becomes 'd' (I've seen this in other clues).
'place yankees' becomes 'oc' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'top?' becomes 'tor'.
'd'+'oc'+'tor'='DOCTOR'

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(Other definitions for doctor that I've seen before include "Physician" , "Tamper with - falsify - one of the 14 films" , "Onshore breeze" , "change" , "Health expert" .)

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