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Black vehicles and pick up trucks are lorries ultimately (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hearses

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'black vehicles' is the definition.
'hearses' can be an answer for 'vehicles' (hearse is a kind of vehicle). I'm not certain of the 'black' bit.

'pick up trucks are lorries ultimately' is the wordplay.
'pick up' becomes 'hear' (hearing is a kind of picking up).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The last letters of 'trucks are lorries' are 'ses'.
'hear'+'ses'='HEARSES'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for hearses that I've seen before include "The last carriers" , "Vehicles for carrying coffins" , "Cars for corpses" .)

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