Make a fuss about judge dropping an E (6)

Times Cryptic #29089 | 21 Across | 2024-12-02
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

C (about) E in RATE; I’m not convinced about this, if I have the parsing correct, as ‘dropping’ would be an instruction to drop an E in the word RATE – and we lack an ‘in’. As pointed out by Myrtilus, if you drop an ecstasy tablet (E), you swallow it.

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