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Motivation and method required to find parking place? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

driveway

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'place?' is the definition.
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'motivation and method' is the wordplay.
'motivation' becomes 'drive' (I've seen this before).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'method' becomes 'way' (way of doing something).
'drive'+'way'='DRIVEWAY'

'required to find parking' is the link.
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(Other definitions for driveway that I've seen before include "short private road" , "Small private road as approach to house" , "Path from house to road" , "Approach to a large house" , "Private path for car in front of house" .)

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