City getting twice as big nearly overspent? (6)

Independent Cryptic #11310 | 20 Down | 2023-01-11
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

D [o] UBLIN [g] (getting twice as big), without the last letter (nearly); then we need to split “over” and “spent”, so that the O (over, in cricket scoring) is taken away (spent = used up).

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