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Toilet and shower cheer up English port (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hartlepool

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'english port' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'toilet and shower cheer up' is the wordplay.
'toilet' becomes 'loo' (loo can informally mean a toilet).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'shower' becomes 'pelt' (showers of rain may be said to pelt).
'cheer' becomes 'rah' (rah is a triumphant cry).
'up' says the letters should be written backwards (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'loo'+'pelt'+'rah'='loopeltrah'
'loopeltrah' back-to-front is 'HARTLEPOOL'.

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(Other definitions for hartlepool that I've seen before include "ultimately minor in the Apollo shot" , "Town in county Durham" .)

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