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Hardly moving cycles around Central Park (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scarcely

'hardly' is the definition.
(I know that hardly can be written as scarcely)

'moving cycles around central park' is the wordplay.
'moving' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'central' means to look at the middle letters.
The centre of 'park' is 'ar'.
'cycles' is an anagram of 'sccely'.
'sccely' placed around 'ar' is 'SCARCELY'.

(Other definitions for scarcely that I've seen before include "Not quite" , "Almost not" , "Barely, hardly" , "Surely not" , "Only just or hardly even" .)

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