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Three lines husband put on road margins finally to park Daihatsu (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

haiku

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'three lines' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'husband put on road margins finally to park daihatsu' is the wordplay.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'put on road margins' becomes 'ai' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'finally' says to take the final letters.
The last letters of 'park daihatsu' are 'ku'.
'h'+'ai'+'ku'='HAIKU'

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(Other definitions for haiku that I've seen before include "Stylised Japanese poem of 17 syllables" , "Seventeen-syllable Japanese poem" , "Jap. 17-syllable verse" , "Eastern poetry" , "Japanese 3-line poem of 17 syllables" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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