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Pedestrian in public location (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

commonplace

'pedestrian' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'public location' is the wordplay.
'public' becomes 'common' ('common' can be similar in meaning to 'public').
'location' becomes 'place' (place is a kind of location).
'common'+'place'='COMMONPLACE'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for commonplace that I've seen before include "Not unusual" , "Ordinary, everyday" , "Frequent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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