Automobile transporting New Year’s honour? It’s on the road (6)
I believe the answer is:
camber
'the road' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'automobile transporting new year's honour? it's' is the wordplay.
'automobile' becomes 'car' ('car' can be a synonym of 'automobile').
'transporting' indicates putting letters inside.
'new year's honour?' becomes 'mb' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'it' becomes 'e' ('e' can mean 'electronic' which is similar to 'IT').
'mb'+'e'='mbe'
'car' placed around 'mbe' is 'CAMBER'.
'on' is the link.
(Other definitions for camber that I've seen before include "Upward curve of a road surface" , "Slight tilt" , "may appear on road" , "Curvature of aircraft wing" , "Convex shape of road surface" .)