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Accessing a mountain, road we take ultimately for British city (8)

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I believe the answer is:

aberdeen

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'british city' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'accessing a mountain road we take ultimately' is the wordplay.
'accessing' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters gain access).
'a' becomes 'an'.
'mountain' becomes 'ber' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The final letters of 'road we take' are 'dee'.
'ber'+'dee'='berdee'
'an' placed around 'berdee' is 'ABERDEEN'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for aberdeen that I've seen before include "PM, resigned over Crimea" , "Scottish North Sea city" , "Grampian city and port" , "Scottish port" , "somewhere in Scotland" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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