Kills time with furtive look around city (9)

I believe the answer is:

leicester

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'city' is the definition.
(Leicester is an example)

'kills time with furtive look around' is the wordplay.
'kills' becomes 'ices' (slang term).
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'furtive look' becomes 'leer' (leer is a kind of look. I am not sure about the 'furtive' bit.).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'ices'+'t'='icest'
'icest' placed into 'leer' is 'LEICESTER'.

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(Other definitions for leicester that I've seen before include "County town on the river Soar" , "Cheese; town" , "English cheese, maybe red" , "Sheep - cheese" , "Midland city" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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