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Surrey town, for example, associable with York? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

egham

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'surrey town' is the definition.
(Egham is a town in Surrey)

'example associable with york?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'example' could be 'eg' (short for 'exempli gratia', 'for example' in Latin) and 'eg' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ham' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for egham that I've seen before include "Surrey town near Runnymede" , "Thames-side town" , "Somewhere in Surrey" .)

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