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Navigational aid for a woman in a car (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

radar

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

'a woman in a car' is the wordplay.
'a woman' becomes 'ada'.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'a car' becomes 'rr' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ada' put inside 'rr' is 'RADAR'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for radar that I've seen before include "System for locating distant objects" , "Radio detection system" , "Aircraft detection system" , "Position detector using radio wave pulses" , "Method of detection" .)

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