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Stink over hooligans in urban areas (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

boroughs

'urban areas' is the definition.
(a borough is an area of a city)

'stink over hooligans' is the wordplay.
'stink' becomes 'BO' (body odour).
'over' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'hooligans' becomes 'roughs' (rough can mean a hooligan).
'bo'+'roughs'='BOROUGHS'

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for boroughs that I've seen is " Administrative districts".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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