Gent with brown headgear moving up in the City (9)
I believe the answer is:
manhattan
'the city' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'gent with brown headgear moving up' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'gent' could be 'tan' and 'tan' is present in the answer.
'headgear' could be 'hat' (hat is a kind of headgear) and 'hat' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'man' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for manhattan that I've seen before include "Vermouth and whisky cocktail - New York borough" , "Island of New York - cocktail" , "Vermouth and whiskey, with a dash of bitters" , "It blended with spirit" , "Cocktail consisting of whisky, vermouth and bitters" .)