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Complete journey on bullet train? (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

round trip

'complete journey' is the definition.
(term for the entirety of a journey)

'on bullet train?' is the wordplay.
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'bullet' becomes 'round'.
'train?' becomes 'trip' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'round' next to 'trip' is 'ROUND-TRIP'.

(Other definitions for round trip that I've seen before include "ending where you started - with 14a" , "Journey that gets you back home" , "bar and back?" , "kind of voyage" , "whole journey" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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