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Extended November in one's youth in area of NY (4,6)

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I believe the answer is:

long island

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'area of ny' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'extended november in one's youth' is the wordplay.
'extended' becomes 'long' (extended can mean longer than usual).
'november' becomes 'N' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one's' becomes 'i's' (Roman numeral).
'youth' becomes 'lad' (lad means a young man).
'is'+'lad'='islad'
'n' put into 'islad' is 'island'.
'long'+'island'='LONG ISLAND'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for long island that I've seen before include "part of America" , "patch cut off in New York" , "Part of New York" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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