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Ring road and what may be said about small section? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orbital

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'ring road' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'said about small section?' is the wordplay.
'said' becomes 'oral' (both can mean spoken).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'small section?' becomes 'bit' (both can mean part. I am not sure about the 'small' bit.).
'oral' placed around 'bit' is 'ORBITAL'.

'and what may be' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for orbital that I've seen before include "Like a sort of road" , "Descriptive of the M25" , "kind of motorway" , "Describing the M25 motorway?" , "(Of a road) going around a town" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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