Get Administrative Officer to curtail sojourn in Italian city (5)
I believe the answer is:
aosta
'italian city' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'get administrative officer to curtail sojourn' is the wordplay.
'get' says to put letters next to each other.
'administrative officer' becomes 'ao' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'to curtail' means to remove the last letter (I've seen 'curtailed' mean this).
'sojourn' becomes 'stay' (I've seen this before).
'stay' with its final letter taken off is 'sta'.
'ao' put next to 'sta' is 'AOSTA'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for aosta that I've seen is " city in Italy".)