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Traveller to ancient city street spanning island (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tourist

'traveller' is the definition.
(tourist is a kind of traveller)

'to ancient city street spanning island' is the wordplay.
'ancient city' becomes 'ur'.
'street' becomes 'st'.
'spanning' indicates putting letters inside.
'island' becomes 'i'.
'ur'+'st'='urst'
'urst' enclosing 'i' is 'urist'.
'to'+'urist'='TOURIST'

(Other definitions for tourist that I've seen before include "One travels for pleasure" , "Tripper, sightseer" , "Holiday visitor" , "Traveller for pleasure" , "Sightseeing traveller" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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