The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word UTRECHT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result UTRECHT
- Cuthbert, less bold, quivering somewhere in Low Countries
- Unreal train route leads to genuine province
- Day in which banker gets backed in the City
- European city‘s butter’s occasionally genuine
- The curt drunk in foreign city
- Utter shambles surrounding church in European city
- No new channel in say, Chandigarh city
- Truce resolved high tension at European city
- Rutte possibly hosts starts of campaigns here
- Hour in cutter assembled in Dutch city
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The straight part
We know that "City" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case city = utrecht.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.