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Awfully curious borders for one area for flowers (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nosegay

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'for flowers' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'awfully curious borders' is the wordplay.
'awfully' becomes 'ga' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'curious' becomes 'nosey' (similar in meaning).
'borders' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are bordered by others).
'ga' going within 'nosey' is 'NOSEGAY'.

'for one area' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for nosegay that I've seen before include "Old-fashioned posy" , "pick of the bunch" , "Gone, say (anag)" , "Posy of flowers" , "Small posy" .)

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