The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAIPEI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result TAIPEI
- At around one, cooked pie in Asian capital
- Hint that’s going round about a foreign capital
- Dictator’s to restrict salary and capital in the Far East
- Capital idea to start with, after one’s broken record
- Capital Asian wages, reportedly
- Asian capital I invested in record industry, primarily
- Capital of Ethiopia having no house refurbished
- Piece of information about a European island, it's also a city
- Record broken by one island capital in Asia
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "capital in the Far East" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case capital in the far east = taipei.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.