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Unsafe transport in the outskirts of Surrey (5)

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I believe the answer is:

scary

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'unsafe' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?

'transport in the outskirts of surrey' is the wordplay.
'transport' becomes 'car' (car is a kind of transport).
'in the' indicates putting letters inside.
'outskirts of' means to remove the middle letters.
'surrey' with its middle removed is 'sy'.
'car' going into 'sy' is 'SCARY'.

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(Other definitions for scary that I've seen before include "Alarming, maybe paranormal" , "[SPICE]" , "Fearsome" , "Frightening or spooky" , "spook" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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