Until women evacuated, residential area of New York? (6)
I believe the answer is:
uptown
'residential area of new york?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'until women evacuated' is the wordplay.
'until' becomes 'up to' (I've seen this before).
'evacuated' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (internal letters are evacuated from the word).
'women' with its middle removed is 'wn'.
'upto'+'wn'='UPTOWN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for uptown that I've seen before include "In a city's residential area (US)" , "Residential area away from the commercial district" , "Residential part of a (US) city" , "Describing the more affluent part (of New York, perhaps)" , "US urban residential area" .)