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Body of Dad's son found in car (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cadaver

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'body' is the definition.
(I know that body can be written as cadaver)

'dad's son found in car' is the wordplay.
'dad's son' becomes 'dave' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'found in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'dave' inserted into 'car' is 'CADAVER'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for cadaver that I've seen before include "Remains of a human" , "Human corpse" , "Dead human body" , "Human body dissected by medical students" , "A kind of corpse" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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