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Fabulous bird returns, coming to recess in cliff road (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

corniche

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

'fabulous bird returns coming to recess' is the wordplay.
'fabulous bird' becomes 'roc' (I've seen this before).
'returns' is a reversal indicator.
'coming to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'recess' becomes 'niche' ('niche' can be a synonym of 'recess'**).
'roc' back-to-front is 'cor'.
'cor'+'niche'='CORNICHE'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for corniche that I've seen before include "cliff route" , "Cliff-side road" , "way along cliff edge" , "coast road by a cliff face" , "My place" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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