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Interminable nonsense about on street (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

constant

'interminable' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nonsense about on street' is the wordplay.
'nonsense' becomes 'cant' (cant is a kind of nonsense**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'street' becomes 'st'.
'on'+'st'='onst'
'cant' placed around 'onst' is 'CONSTANT'.

(Other definitions for constant that I've seen before include "Steady and unceasing" , "Stable" , "Changeless and unceasing" , "staying the same" , "Remaining the same" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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