The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CIVIC
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More clues leading to the result CIVIC
- I regularly avoid being taken in by county council regarding citizens
- Metropolitan running both ways?
- Roman figures in the city?
- Municipal rise and fall
- City that may rise and fall
- Numbers of Romans about the city
- About four in charge of city
- Characteristic of a city viewed from either direction
- City’s unaffected by upset
- Municipal palindrome
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The straight part
We know that "of city" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case of city = civic.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does CIVIC mean?
CIVIC adjective- Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
- Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.