US city’s year satisfactory with Republican brought in after big city upset (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
new york
'us city's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'year satisfactory with republican brought in after big city upset' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'year' could be 'y' and 'y' is present in the answer.
'with' could be 'w' (abbreviation) and 'w' is found within the answer.
'republican' could be 'r' (abbreviation in US politics) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'satisfactory' could be 'ok' (similar in meaning) and 'ok' is found in the leftover letters.
The remaining letters 'ne' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for new york that I've seen before include "Worn key (anag.)" , "City known as The Big Apple" , "Statue of Liberty city" , "City ''so good they named it twice''" , "US state, city" .)