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Farcical advertisement about empty transport going to old city (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

absurd

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'farcical' is the definition.
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'advertisement about empty transport going to old city' is the wordplay.
'advertisement' becomes 'ad' ('ad' can be a synonym of 'advertisement').
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'empty transport going' becomes 'bs' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to old city' becomes 'ur' (ancient city state).
'bs'+'ur'='bsur'
'ad' placed around 'bsur' is 'ABSURD'.

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(Other definitions for absurd that I've seen before include "Preposterous, nonsensical" , "Ludicrous, silly" , "Foolish, quite ridiculous" , "Idiotic" , "Ridiculous, quite nonsensical" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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