Some pharmaceutical town in NY (5)
I believe the answer is:
utica
'ny' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'some pharmaceutical town' is the wordplay.
'some' indicates a hidden word (some parts of the word are used).
'UTICA' is hidden within 'pharmaceutical town'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for utica that I've seen before include "old African city" , "Punic city" , "city of ancient Africa?" , "New York city" .)