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Old Ford carrying it into city (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

osaka

'city' is the definition.
(Japanese city)

'old ford carrying it' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'ford' becomes 'ka' (the Ka is a type of Ford car).
'carrying' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, the bottom letters carry others).
'it' becomes 'sa' (SA can mean sex appeal, as in 'it').
'ka' after 'sa' is 'saka'.
'o'+'saka'='OSAKA'

'into' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for osaka that I've seen before include "Major port and commercial and industrial centre on Honshu" , "Third most populous Japanese city" , "Japanese port city" , "Port city on Honshu, Japan" , "Kinki's capital" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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