Young socialite, before playing field, went naked in Hungarian city (8)
I believe the answer is:
debrecen
'hungarian city' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'young socialite before playing field went naked' is the wordplay.
'young socialite' becomes 'deb' (debutante).
'before' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'playing field' becomes 'rec' (short for recreation ground).
'naked' means to look at the middle letters (outside letters removed so centre is unclothed).
The central letters of 'went' are 'en'.
'deb'+'rec'+'en'='DEBRECEN'
'in' is the link.
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I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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