Crossword Genius

Dependent on women being evacuated in residential area (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

uptown

'residential area' is the definition.
(area of a town)

'dependent on women being evacuated' is the wordplay.
'dependent on' becomes 'up to' (if something's up to you, it depends what you want).
'being evacuated' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'women' with its centre removed is 'wn'.
'upto'+'wn'='UPTOWN'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for uptown that I've seen before include "Residential part of a (US) city" , "US urban residential area" , "In a city's residential area (US)" , "Residential area away from the commercial district" , "Towards the urban centre" .)

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