The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word NORWICH
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result NORWICH
- City man put up with heartless crone
- On returning, well off, embracing wife in city
- At present partly within affluent city
- Paupers only presumably touring western city
- See rich now in resort
- Women’s Institute standing in front of church and not before cathedral
- Unseemly row during endless recess in city
- Somewhere in UK and not the Caribbean or Switzerland
- Some in Washington or Wichita or another city
- See metal-clad wife’s rampant companion
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