Crossword Genius

Lounge mainly before ten or eleven in Italy (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lazio

'eleven in italy' is the definition.
(S.S. Lazio is an Italian football team)

'lounge mainly before ten' is the wordplay.
'lounge' becomes 'laze' (laze can mean to lounge around).
'mainly' means to remove the last letter (virtually or mainly the word, but not all of it).
'before' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ten' becomes 'IO' (IO resembles 10).
'laze' with its final letter removed is 'laz'.
'laz'+'io'='LAZIO'

'or' is the link.

(Another definition for lazio that I've seen is " Italian administrative region".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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