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Entering a quiet city, changed into shades (11)

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I believe the answer is:

apparitions

'shades' is the definition.
(shade can mean ghost in literature)

'entering a quiet city changed into' is the wordplay.
'entering' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'quiet' becomes 'p' (music symbol for 'piano', ie soft or quiet).
'city' becomes 'paris' (Paris is an example).
'changed' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'p'+'paris'='apparis'
'into' is an anagram of 'tion'.
'apparis' enclosing 'tion' is 'APPARITIONS'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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