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Wish to keep going round state capital (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yerevan

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'capital' is the definition.
(capital of Armenia)

'wish to keep going round state' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'state' could be 'va' and 'va' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for yerevan that I've seen before include "east European city" , "Capital of Armenia" , "ancient capital" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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