National University in Nordic city (5)

I believe the answer is:

turku

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'nordic city' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'national university' is the wordplay.
'national' becomes 'turk' (I've seen this before).
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation for university).
'turk'+'u'='TURKU'

'in' is the link.

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(Another definition for turku that I've seen is " town in Finland".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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