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City man put up with heartless crone (7)

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I believe the answer is:

norwich

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

'man put up with heartless crone' is the wordplay.
'man put up' becomes 'nor' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'heartless' suggests removing the centre.
'crone' becomes 'witch' (synonyms).
'witch' with its middle removed is 'wich'.
'nor'+'wich'='NORWICH'

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(Other definitions for norwich that I've seen before include "County town on the Wensum" , "County town of Norfolk" , "Administrative centre of Norfolk" , "English city" , "Norfolk city" .)

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