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Do travellers have a terribly long wait to get one? (5-3)

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I believe the answer is:

wagon-lit

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'wait to get one?' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'do travellers have a terribly long' is the wordplay.
'do travellers' becomes 'wait' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'have' is an insertion indicator.
'a terribly' indicates an anagram.
'long' anagrammed gives 'gonl'.
'wait' going around 'gonl' is 'WAGON-LIT'.

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(Other definitions for wagon-lit that I've seen before include "sleeper" , "In-law got injured in sleeping car" , "Continental sleeping-car" , "Sleeping car on continental trains" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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