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Aircon in a double-decker? You can count on it (6)

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abacus

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'you can count on it' is the definition.
(an abacus is a tool for doing sums)

'aircon in a double-decker?' is the wordplay.
'aircon' becomes 'ac' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'double-decker?' becomes 'bus' (synonyms).
'a'+'bus'='abus'
'ac' going within 'abus' is 'ABACUS'.

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(Other definitions for abacus that I've seen before include "summer once?" , "Old counting-frame" , "Counting machine" , "Manual calculator" , "this adds up" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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