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City from which manservant comes back before four (3,4)

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I believe the answer is:

tel aviv

'city' is the definition.
(Tel Aviv is an example)

'manservant comes back before four' is the wordplay.
'manservant' becomes 'valet' (valet is a kind of manservant).
'comes back' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'before' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'four' becomes 'iv' ('IV' can be a synonym of 'four').
'valet' backwards is 'telav'.
'telav'+'iv'='TEL AVIV'

'from which' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for tel aviv that I've seen before include "Israeli city on the Mediterranean" , "Financial centre of Israel" , "Second largest city of Israel" , "city on the Mediterranean coast" , "Capital of Israel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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