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Swallow or dove circling over ancient city (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

devour

'swallow' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'dove circling over ancient city' is the wordplay.
'circling' indicates an anagram.
'over' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'ancient city' becomes 'ur' (ancient Sumerian city state).
'dove' is an anagram of 'devo'.
'devo'+'ur'='DEVOUR'

'or' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for devour that I've seen before include "Guzzle" , "Eat greedily" , "Swallow greedily" , "Quickly consume" , "Gobble up greedily" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph and The Globe and Mail.
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