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Resident sharing a room with some citizens (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

denizen

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

'sharing a room with some citizens' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'room' could be 'den' (den is a kind of room) and 'den' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for denizen that I've seen before include "Enid Zen (anag) - inhabitant of a particular place" , "Resident" , "Person in foreign country enjoying rights of natives" , "Dweller" , "Inhabitant (of the deep?)" .)

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