The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RAPTURE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result RAPTURE
- Criticise return of routine: source of eventual happiness
- Put bananas in unusual transport
- Pure art somehow bringing great joy
- Strangely put into uncommon ecstasy
- Put in new position in unexpected delight
- Runs to catch first departing transport
- After a change of heart, underrate public transport
- Artist attached to her work left in charge of transport
- Baroque art, pure joy
- Put out in unusual transport
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The straight part
We know that "transport" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case transport = rapture.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does RAPTURE mean?
RAPTURE noun- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
- A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
- To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- To experience great happiness or excitement.
- To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.