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Fear city rioting doing for area? Right (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rectify

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'right' is the definition.
(I know that right can be written as rectify)

'fear city rioting doing for area?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'city' could be 'ec' (the City of London postcode) and 'ec' 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 rectify that I've seen before include "change current form" , "Correct - repair" , "Make correct, put right" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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