Right! You hear and I see north and south in a deserted city (5)
I believe the answer is:
ruins
'in a deserted city' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'right you hear and i see north and south' is the wordplay.
'right' indicates one should take the final letters (I've seen 'right of' mean this (letter on the rightmost end of the word)).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'see north' says the letters should be written backwards (in a down clue, letters go up or 'north').
'and' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and').
'south' becomes 's' (abbreviation).
The last letters of 'you hear' are 'ur'.
'ur' put after 'i' is 'iur'.
'iur' written backwards gives 'rui'.
'rui'+'n'+'s'='RUINS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ruins that I've seen before include "Spoils" , "Wrecks" , "Collapsed, disintegrated buildings" , "Damaged remains (of building)" , "Remains to be seen" .)