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Silence on the radio or the funeral march? (4,3)

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I believe the answer is:

dead air

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'silence on the radio or the funeral' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.

'march?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'march?' could be 'dead' (dead march is a kind of march) and 'dead' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'air' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for dead air that I've seen is " Silence on radio".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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