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German city with hospital demolished by one friend in local government office? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

municipal

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'german city' is the definition.
'municipal' can be an answer for 'city' (thesaurus). I am not sure about the 'german' bit.

'hospital demolished by one friend in local government office?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'un' (northern English dialect form of 'one') and 'un' is found in the answer.
'friend' could be 'pal' (pal is a kind of friend) and 'pal' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'with' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for municipal that I've seen before include "of one's town" , "Civic" , "City's" , "Run by the council" , "belonging to the city" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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