A public entertainment, not one a million miles away? (4)
I believe the answer is:
afar
'away?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a public entertainment' is the wordplay.
'public entertainment' becomes 'far' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'far'='AFAR'
'not one a million miles' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for afar that I've seen before include "a good way off" , "Distant, not near" , "long way back" , "At a distance (poetic)" , "Not in this neighbourhood" .)