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Kentish Town station's entrance surveyed by female eagles (9)

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I believe the answer is:

sheerness

'kentish town' is the definition.
(town in Kent)

'station's entrance surveyed by female eagles' is the wordplay.
'entrance' indicates taking the first letters.
'surveyed by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (some letters survey or overlook those beneath them).
'female' becomes 'she' ('she' refers to a woman).
'eagles' becomes 'ernes' (erne is a kind of eagle).
The first letter of 'stations' is 's'.
'she'+'ernes'='sheernes'
's' put after 'sheernes' is 'SHEERNESS'.

(Other definitions for sheerness that I've seen before include "Kent resort" , "Kentish Town" , "Perpendicularity; Isle of Sheppey town" , "Site of former naval dockyard in Isle of Sheppey" , "Feature of cliff" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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