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Associate escorted around by assistant in Australian city (8)

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I believe the answer is:

adelaide

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

'associate escorted around by assistant' is the wordplay.
'associate' becomes 'adel' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'escorted' becomes 'led' (to lead someone somewhere is to escort them).
'around' says to take the centre.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'assistant' becomes 'aid' (I've seen this before).
The middle of 'led' is 'e'.
'e' after 'aid' is 'aide'.
'adel'+'aide'='ADELAIDE'

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for adelaide that I've seen before include "cook turkey on the barbie here?" , "Antipodean city" , "somewhere in Australia" , "close to Detroit" , "State capital of South Australia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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