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Wild as nights in a Sussex town (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hastings

'a sussex town' is the definition.
(town in East Sussex)

'wild as nights' is the wordplay.
'wild' indicates an anagram.
'as'+'nights'='asnights'
'asnights' anagrammed gives 'HASTINGS'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for hastings that I've seen before include "South coast resort" , "somewhere in Sussex" , "Ten sixty six battle" , "Town in East Sussex" , "Sussex battle" .)

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