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Celebrity swallowed one during flight (5)

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I believe the answer is:

stair

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'flight' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'celebrity swallowed one during' is the wordplay.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'swallowed one' becomes 'i' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'star' going around 'i' is 'STAIR'.

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(Other definitions for stair that I've seen before include "Support on which to step" , "One step of a flight" , "Word linking way and well" , "single step in a series" , "Rising step" .)

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