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Having the ticket and the times of the journeys (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

passages

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'the journeys' is the definition.
(passage is a kind of journey)

'having the ticket and the times' is the wordplay.
'having the ticket' becomes 'pass' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the times' becomes 'ages' (age is a kind of time).
'pass'+'ages'='PASSAGES'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for passages that I've seen before include "Corridors, ways through" , "Texts" , "parts of text" , "sections of the speech" , "journeys" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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