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Arrive on time without a lot of laughs? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

comedy

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'lot of laughs?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

'arrive on time without a' is the wordplay.
'arrive' becomes 'come' (synonyms).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'time' becomes 'day' (day is a kind of time).
'without' suggests deleting specific letters.
'day' with 'a' taken away is 'dy'.
'come'+'dy'='COMEDY'

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(Other definitions for comedy that I've seen before include "Dante's divine work" , "Light and humorous drama" , "Drama genre" , "kind of play" , "Funny presentation" .)

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