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Takes courage to cuddle in a traffic jam (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bottleneck

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'a traffic jam' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'takes courage to cuddle' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'courage' could be 'bottle' (bottle can mean courage) and 'bottle' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'neck' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for bottleneck that I've seen before include "Part of glass container" , "Constricted place" , "Where traffic is squeezed" , "hold-up situation" , "Traffic restriction" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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