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Royal women in part of New York (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

queens

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'part of new york' is the definition.
(I know that Queens is part of New York City)

'royal women' is the wordplay.
'royal' becomes 'queen' (queen is a kind of royal).
'women' becomes 's' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'queen'+'s'='QUEENS'

'in' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for queens that I've seen before include "Borough of NYC for the royals" , "NY borough; two Oxbridge colleges" , "Brooklyn's neighbour" , "Most powerful pieces in chess games" , "Borough of New York City for monarchs" .)

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