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Figure the eccentric healer is out of town (2,5)

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I believe the answer is:

le havre

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'figure' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'eccentric healer is out of town' is the wordplay.
'eccentric' indicates anagramming the letters.
'is out' is an insertion indicator.
'of town' becomes 'v' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'healer' is an anagram of 'lehare'.
'lehare' enclosing 'v' is 'LE HAVRE'.

'the' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for le havre that I've seen before include "French Channel port" , "Port city of northern France" , "Northern French port" , "Port in Normandy" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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