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Continue to ridicule English county town (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

taunton

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

'continue to ridicule' is the wordplay.
'continue' becomes 'on' (I've seen this in other clues).
'to' says to put letters next to each other (I've seen this in other clues).
'ridicule' becomes 'taunt' (I've seen this in another clue).
'on' after 'taunt' is 'TAUNTON'.

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(Other definitions for taunton that I've seen before include "County town of Somerset" , "SW town" , "Home of Somerset CCC" , "Somerset's county town" , "English town" .)

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