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City abroad almost unable to see touring queen (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

berlin

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'city' is the definition.
(Berlin is an example)

'almost unable to see touring queen' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (most of the word but not all of it).
'unable to see' becomes 'blind' (I've seen this before).
'touring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (touring can mean going round).
'queen' becomes 'ER' (abbreviation for Elizabeth Regina).
'blind' with its last letter removed is 'blin'.
'blin' placed around 'er' is 'BERLIN'.

'abroad' acts as a link.
This may not be right. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for berlin that I've seen before include "Capital of Germany" , "Composer of White Christmas" , "Possibly Isaiah" , "2 [PHILOSOPHER]" , "City once divided by wall" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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