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Continue working in west London (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

acton

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'west london' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'continue working' is the wordplay.
'continue' becomes 'act' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'working' becomes 'on' (on can mean working or activated).
'act'+'on'='ACTON'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for acton that I've seen before include "London area" , "District of West London" , "Gladstone's adviser" , "Part of the London borough of Ealing - British historian, d. 1902" , "English statesman" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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