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Flight into street-tunes (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

stairs

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

'street-tunes' is the wordplay.
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'tunes' becomes 'airs' (air can mean a piece of music).
'st'+'airs'='STAIRS'

'into' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for stairs that I've seen before include "A set of rising steps" , "Interior means of ascent" , "A flight of indoor steps" , "4 and 8 (to the cockney)" , "Series of steps" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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