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House expert sides have near Edithburgh (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yorketown

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'near edithburgh' is the definition.
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'house expert sides have' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'york' (I've seen this before).
'sides' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the letters on the sides are used).
'have' becomes 'own' (to have something is to own it).
'expert' with its centre removed is 'et'.
'york'+'et'+'own'='YORKETOWN'

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