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Three-card trick on film is capital (10)

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I believe the answer is:

montevideo

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'is capital' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'three-card trick on film' is the wordplay.
'three card trick' becomes 'monte' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'film' becomes 'video' (I've seen this before).
'monte'+'video'='MONTEVIDEO'

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(Other definitions for montevideo that I've seen before include "Port" , "Uruguayan capital" , "Capital of Uruguay" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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