Nice, redeveloped street around the outskirts of Ashington is Northumberland’s best (8)

Guardian Cryptic #29863 | 6 Down | 2025-11-27
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An anagram (redeveloped) of NICE ST round A[shingto]N – more clever wordplay: Ashington is a town in Northumberland, where ‘canny’ is dialect for good / nice:  the placing of the capitalised Nice was a momentary misdirection, which raised a smile

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