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Whenever City put on a bit of talent, I'm close to rapture (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

anytime

'whenever' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'city put on a bit of talent i'm close to rapture' is the wordplay.
'city' becomes 'ny' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'put on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bit of' says to take the initial letters.
'close to' indicates one should take the final letters (the close/ending of).
The initial letter of 'talent' is 't'.
The last letter of 'rapture' is 'e'.
'ny' put after 'a' is 'any'.
'any'+'t'+'im'+'e'='ANYTIME'

(Other definitions for anytime that I've seen before include "Whenever, as it doesn't matter" , "date not fixed" , "Whenever you like" , "At no particular moment" , "At whatever moment" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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