City revolutionary writer cripples? (5)

I believe the answer is:

miami

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

'revolutionary writer cripples?' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' says the letters should be written backwards.
'writer' becomes 'I' (the person who is writing these clues).
'cripples?' becomes 'maim' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'i'+'maim'='imaim'
'imaim' reversed gives 'MIAMI'.

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(Other definitions for miami that I've seen before include "Popular sun-city of Florida" , "US city" , "Florida resort city, Beach" , "Resort city in SE Florida" , "Prejudice in favour of one person or thing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.

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