US city artist turning up, a drunkard grabbed by Salvationists (8)

I believe the answer is:

sarasota

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'us city' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'artist turning up a drunkard grabbed by salvationists' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'turning up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'drunkard' becomes 'sot' (sot can mean a drunken person).
'grabbed by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are grabbed inside).
'salvationists' becomes 'sa' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ra' in reverse letter order is 'ar'.
'ar'+'a'+'sot'='arasot'
'arasot' inserted within 'sa' is 'SARASOTA'.

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