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New road in London's opening first, say? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ordinal

'first say?' is the definition.
(first is a kind of ordinal)

'new road in london's opening' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates an anagram.
'opening' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'londons' is 'l'.
'road'+'in'='roadin'
'roadin' with letters rearranged gives 'ordina'.
'ordina'+'l'='ORDINAL'

(Other definitions for ordinal that I've seen before include "Old Iran (anag)" , "Eg second" , "Relating to position in a sequence" , "Ranking number" , "Roman Catholic service book" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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