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Local unsophisticated around town at first (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

native

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'local' is the definition.
(relating to a particular area)

'unsophisticated around town at first' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'town' could be 't' (common abbreviation eg in football team names) and 't' is located in the answer.
'unsophisticated' could be 'naive' (synonyms) and 'naive' is found within the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for native that I've seen before include "Original inhabitant" , "In a natural state" , "One locally born" , "Of person, belonging by birth to place" , "Indigenous, aboriginal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and The Times.
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