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Transport if trail's destroyed? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

airlift

'transport' is the definition.
(airlift is a kind of transport)

'if trail's destroyed?' is the wordplay.
'destroyed?' indicates an anagram.
'if'+'trail'='iftrail'
'iftrail' with letters rearranged gives 'AIRLIFT'.

(Other definitions for airlift that I've seen before include "Berlin relief, 1948" , "means of escape" , "Transport in planes" , "Flying transportation" , "delivery" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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