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Blue pole with notice attached (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sad

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'blue' is the definition.
(I know that blue can be written as sad)

'pole with notice attached' is the wordplay.
'pole with' becomes 's' (abbreviation for South, as in South Pole. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'notice' becomes 'ad' (both can mean an advertisement).
'attached' means one lot of letters go next to another.
's'+'ad'='SAD'

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(Other definitions for sad that I've seen before include "Mournful and depressed" , "Blue" , "Miserable" , "Despondent" , "Mournful - sorry" .)

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