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Balkan citizen welcoming to American citizen (9)

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I believe the answer is:

bostonian

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'american citizen' is the definition.
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'balkan citizen welcoming to' is the wordplay.
'balkan citizen' becomes 'bosnian' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'welcoming' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'inviting in').
'bosnian' placed around 'to' is 'BOSTONIAN'.

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(Other definitions for bostonian that I've seen before include "US citizen" , "US state capitalist" .)

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