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Education unfortunately not working, hampering millions in city (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

edmonton

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

'education unfortunately not working hampering millions' is the wordplay.
'education' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation - e.g. sex ed).
'unfortunately' indicates an anagram.
'working' becomes 'on' (**).
'hampering' means one lot of letters goes inside another (hamper can mean to obstruct or restrain).
'millions' becomes 'm' (abbreviation).
'not' is an anagram of '[not]'.
'[not]'+'on'='onton'
'onton' going around 'm' is 'monton'.
'ed'+'monton'='EDMONTON'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for edmonton that I've seen before include "Tom Donne is out in the Canadian city" , "Provincial city" , "Canadian provincial capital" , "Odd demon not in a Canadian city" , "Part of London (or Alberta)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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