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Town's new poet, struggling, drilled soundly (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pontefract

'town's' is the definition.
(town in West Yorkshire)

'new poet struggling drilled soundly' is the wordplay.
'new' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation eg NT for New Testament).
'struggling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'drilled soundly' becomes 'fract' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'n'+'poet'='npoet'
'npoet' with letters rearranged gives 'ponte'.
'ponte'+'fract'='PONTEFRACT'

(Another definition for pontefract that I've seen is " Yorkshire town".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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