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Smashing fellow, potentially, left behind London attraction (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vandal

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'london attraction' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'smashing fellow potentially left behind' is the wordplay.
'smashing fellow potentially' becomes 'vanda' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'behind' says to put letters next to each other.
'vanda'+'l'='VANDAL'

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(Other definitions for vandal that I've seen before include "Barbarian - wrecker" , "Cultural destroyer" , "Destructive person" , "Wanton wrecker" , "Person causing wanton damage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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