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I say, Cadillac should be parked by American high-flier (6)

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icarus

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'high-flier' is the definition.
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'i say cadillac should be parked by american' is the wordplay.
'say cadillac' becomes 'crus' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'should be parked by' indicates putting letters inside.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'crus' enclosing 'a' is 'carus'.
'i'+'carus'='ICARUS'

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(Other definitions for icarus that I've seen before include "High-flying son of Daedalus" , "Greek mythical youth who flew too close to the sun" , "Ill-fated flyer of myth" , "Flier with wax wings" , "Ancient Greek who flew so high his wings melted" .)

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