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Everyone keeps eye endlessly on lane (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alley

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'lane' is the definition.
(I know that alley is a type of lane)

'everyone keeps eye endlessly' is the wordplay.
'everyone' becomes 'all' (all people).
'keeps' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'endlessly' means to look at the middle letters (the ends of the words are removed).
The centre of 'eye' is 'y'.
'all'+'e'+'y'='ALLEY'

'on' is the link.

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(Other definitions for alley that I've seen before include "Narrow passageway" , "space in US court" , "Narrow passage" , "garden path" , "Narrow lane; type of cat" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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