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Consume a bit of life in US city with aplomb (6)

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I believe the answer is:

neatly

'with aplomb' is the definition.

'consume a bit of life in us city' is the wordplay.
'consume' becomes 'eat' (eating is a kind of consuming).
'a bit of' indicates taking the first letters.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'us city' becomes 'ny' (I've seen this in other clues**).
The first letter of 'life' is 'l'.
'eat'+'l'='eatl'
'eatl' put within 'ny' is 'NEATLY'.

(Other definitions for neatly that I've seen before include "Tidily and cleanly" , "Orderly and cleanly" , "In tidy fashion" , "'Tidily, trimly (6)'" , "nicely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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