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Lancashire city not reaching conclusion quickly (6)

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I believe the answer is:

presto

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

'lancashire city not' is the wordplay.
'lancashire city' becomes 'prest' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'not' becomes 'o' (I've seen this in other clues).
'prest'+'o'='PRESTO'

'reaching conclusion' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for presto that I've seen before include "scored quickly" , "quick to score" , "hey......,cries the magician" , "(Musically) fast" , "quickly in bars" .)

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