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City's providing support for toilets, just about (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loosely

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'about' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adverbs. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'city's providing support for toilets' is the wordplay.
'city' becomes 'ely' (Ely is a city in Cambridgeshire).
'providing support for' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'toilets' becomes 'loos' (loo can informally mean a toilet).
'ely' after 'loos' is 'LOOSELY'.

'just' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for loosely that I've seen before include "Vaguely" , "Not exactly" , "without restraint" , "Generally" , "Approximately" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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