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Lived at Wembley Central, even (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

been

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'lived' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with fundamental existence as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'at wembley central even' is the wordplay.
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'central' indicates the central letters.
'even' becomes 'een' ('e'en' can be a synonym of 'even').
The centre of 'wembley' is 'b'.
'b'+'een' is 'BEEN'.

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(Other definitions for been that I've seen before include "(Have) gone in the past (to somewhere)" , "Past participle of be" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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