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Fall asleep beside passage, leading to aviation emergency (5-7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crash-landing

'aviation emergency' is the definition.
(eg a plane landing)

'fall asleep beside passage' is the wordplay.
'fall asleep' becomes 'crash' (I've seen this in another clue).
'beside' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'passage' becomes 'landing' (I have seen 'Upstairs passage ' mean 'landing' so perhaps 'passage' could also mean 'landing').
'crash'+'landing'='CRASH-LANDING'

'leading to' is the link.

(Other definitions for crash-landing that I've seen before include "Emergency descent" , "Emergency setting down of aircraft with resultant damage" , "(Plane's) emergency return to earth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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