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Capital to put out, keeping last of money (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tokyo

'capital' is the definition.
(Tokyo is an example)

'to put out keeping last of money' is the wordplay.
'put out' becomes 'ko' (abbreviation for knock out**).
'keeping' is an insertion indicator.
'last of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'money' is 'y'.
'ko' enclosing 'y' is 'kyo'.
'to'+'kyo'='TOKYO'

(Other definitions for tokyo that I've seen before include "City once called Edo" , "Japanese capital" , "Far Eastern capital" , "Large Japanese city" , "Capital of Japan" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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