Guardian Prize Crossword 27681 Saturday December 1St 2018

[stainl88]

Parsing help please.

6d Anglicised French poet's state, for example' broadcast (10)

_A_S_I_L_S

Seems it must be MARSEILLES. I get the second syllable sounds like SAY (FOR EXAMPLE) but cannot parse the first syllable.

[stainl88]

Correction.. port's not poet's

[Toorak]

MAR (country code for Morocco)

[Mamyalynne]

I may be off target but I thought

MA - State (Massachusetts)
Say - For example

Both sound likes

Marseilles

[geeker]

Thanks, all. This was the LOI and I had exactly the same question.