False accusation about city behind chimney (7)
I believe the answer is:
calumny
'false accusation' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'about city behind chimney' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'about' could be 'ca' (short for circa) and 'ca' is present in the answer.
'city' could be 'ny' (short for New York) and 'ny' is present in the answer.
'chimney' could be 'lum' (I have seen 'Scottish chimney ' mean 'lum' so perhaps 'chimney' could also mean 'lum') and 'lum' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for calumny that I've seen before include "False accusation or statement" , "A slanderous statement" , "Untrue and malicious statement about a person" , "Abuse" , "Slander, defamation" .)