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Leave advisor to cross street in front of English shop (10,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

department store

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'shop' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'leave advisor to cross street in front of english' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'leave' could be 'depart' (departing is a kind of leaving) and 'depart' is present in the answer.
'to' is present in the answer.
'cross' could be 't' (shape) and 't' is located in the answer.
'english' could be 'e' (abbreviation) and 'e' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for department store that I've seen before include "place on the high street" , "shopping centre" , "Big shop" , "large shop" , "Building" .)

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