90% discount on opening of neighbourhood businessapproach succeededthey make some noise (5,5)

Guardian Cryptic #28936 | 6 Down | 2022-12-09
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

A charade of VOCAL, which is LOCAL (‘neighbourhood’) with the initial L replaced by V (Roman numerals, 50 replaced by 5, ‘90% discount on opening’) plus CO (company, ‘business’) plus RD (road, ‘approach’) plus S (‘succeeded’).

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