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Girl entertains star in US city (3,5)

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I believe the answer is:

las vegas

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'us city' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'girl entertains star in' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'lass' (lass is a kind of girl).
'entertains' indicates putting letters inside.
'star in' becomes 'vega' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'lass' enclosing 'vega' is 'LAS VEGAS'.

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(Other definitions for las vegas that I've seen before include "entertainment centre" , "Nevadan city" , "Gambling centre in USA" , "US gambling city" , "US resort - with 23d" .)

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