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Elaborate charade about time left for city feature (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cathedral

'city feature' is the definition.
(as in a cathedral city)

'elaborate charade about time left' is the wordplay.
'elaborate' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'about' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'charade' after 't' is 'tcharade'.
'tcharade' with letters rearranged gives 'cathedra'.
'cathedra'+'l'='CATHEDRAL'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for cathedral that I've seen before include "Where you'll find bishop" , "seat of power" , "dramatic murder location" , "Halted car, badly, at the important church" , "eg Ely" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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