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Arab place for music in company (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cairo

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'arab place' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'music in company' is the wordplay.
'music' becomes 'air' (air is a kind of music).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'company' becomes 'co' (abbreviation).
'air' inserted within 'co' is 'CAIRO'.

'for' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for cairo that I've seen before include "Port upstream from the Nile delta" , "Egyptian capital" , "Al Qahira" , "Capital city on the Nile" , "African city" .)

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