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Stick in front of plane certainly for take-off (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

parody

'take-off' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'stick in front of plane certainly' is the wordplay.
'stick' becomes 'rod' (I've seen this before**).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'front of' suggests taking the first letters.
'certainly' becomes 'ay' (variant spelling of 'aye').
The first letter of 'plane' is 'p'.
'p'+'ay'='pay'
'rod' placed into 'pay' is 'PARODY'.

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for parody that I've seen before include "Take off" , "Send up" , "Comic imitation of, say, well-known literary style" , "Travesty" , "Takeoff" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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