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Deceptive aspect of the little notice in front (6)

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I believe the answer is:

facade

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'front' is the definition.
(I know that facade is a type of front)

'deceptive aspect of the little notice' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'notice' could be 'ad' (short for advert) and 'ad' is located in the answer.
'aspect' could be 'face' (side of a building) and 'face' is located in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for facade that I've seen before include "External surface" , "Showy front" , "Front of building or outer appearance" , "Building frontage, or sort of pretence" , "exterior" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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