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Queen inside of hive back in capital city (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vienna

'capital city' is the definition.
(capital of Austria)

'queen inside of hive back' is the wordplay.
'queen' becomes 'anne' (Queen Anne, 18th-century queen).
'inside of' says to take the centre.
'back' says the letters should be written in reverse.
The middle of 'hive' is 'iv'.
'anne'+'iv'='anneiv'
'anneiv' reversed gives 'VIENNA'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for vienna that I've seen before include "huge 20 [ULTRAVOX] hit" , "Capital on the Danube Canal" , "Capital city of Austria" , "City of Strauss and the waltz" , "Strauss 'Tales from the . . . . . . Woods'" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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