Salt Lake City resident I see now in Austin regularly (6)

I believe the answer is:

utahan

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'salt lake city resident' is the definition.
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'i see now in austin regularly' is the wordplay.
'i see now' becomes 'aha' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
The alternate letters of 'austin' are 'utn'.
'aha' placed within 'utn' is 'UTAHAN'.

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(Other definitions for utahan that I've seen before include "American statesman" , "in a religious state?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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