Outbreak in London borough announced locally (4)

Times Cryptic #29300 | 4 Down | 2025-08-05
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

Aural wordplay [announced locally]:  “{H}ackney” (London Borough). Hackney is in East London where they drop their haitches don’t-yer-know, and ‘locally’ indicates that’s what’s going on here. As some of you may be eating breakfast I won’t expand on how acne = outbreak.

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