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Cunning vehicle's backing in, pronto (7)

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I believe the answer is:

smartly

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'pronto' is the definition.
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'cunning vehicle's backing in' is the wordplay.
'cunning' becomes 'sly' ('sly' can be a synonym of 'cunning').
'vehicle's backing' becomes 'mart' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sly' placed around 'mart' is 'SMARTLY'.

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(Other definitions for smartly that I've seen before include "How the chic are turned out" , "at a brisk pace" , "pronto" , "wasting no time" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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