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26a "Silly to turn to carbon - be sustainable" (7)

C?A???E

Any help much appreciated

Not much help, gooner, but I couldn't parse that one either. All I got to was "Charlie" - fits a definition somewhat loosely I guess.

Thanks bobbycollns; CHARLIE was as far as I could get as well for silly, but stumped on the parsing

Silly (def as a noun). To turn to carbon is to CHAR and LIE in legal terms is to be sustainable (see Chambers).

Thanks jono; I'd never have got the legal term

1d 'Charging point on route' (3,4).

The solution appears to be 'BUS STOP' but I don't get the parsing. I assume the definition is 'point on route' - or even the whole clue at a push. I think a 'bus' is some kind of route or channel in computing but I just cannot pull it all together. Any suggestions out there please?

Possibly a ref to Fare Stage where a bus stop on the route denotes the charge payable from that point?

I wondered if it was a place where a bus was charged (filled)? Not good, though.

I thought it an &lit - pay on boarding maybe?

Thanks all for the suggestions. An odd one.