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Street's manifest disuse under motorway entrance to Indian reservations (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mistrust

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'reservations' is the definition.
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'street's manifest disuse under motorway entrance to indian' is the wordplay.
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'manifest disuse' becomes 'rust' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'under' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'motorway' becomes 'M' (as in motorway names - Mr, Mt etc).
'entrance to' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'indian' is 'i'.
'st'+'rust'='strust'
'm'+'i'='mi'
'strust' put after 'mi' is 'MISTRUST'.

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(Other definitions for mistrust that I've seen before include "Suspect (someone)" , "Have doubts about" , "Regard with suspicion" , "Lack of belief (in someone)" , "reservations" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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