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Reverse vehicle into space initially unavailable: good advice? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

oracle

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'unavailable good advice?' is the definition.
'oracle' can be an answer for 'advice?' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the 'unavailable good' bit.

'reverse vehicle into space initially' is the wordplay.
'reverse' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'vehicle' becomes 'car' (car is a kind of vehicle).
'into' is an insertion indicator.
'space initially' becomes 'elo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'car' placed inside 'elo' is 'elcaro'.
'elcaro' written backwards gives 'ORACLE'.

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(Other definitions for oracle that I've seen before include "One believed to give divinely-inspired answers" , "Place where ancient Greeks consulted a god or prophet" , "Expert" , "Authoritative statement" , "source of revelation?" .)

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