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Country dancing nice with lad (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

iceland

'country' is the definition.
(Iceland is an example)

'dancing nice with lad' is the wordplay.
'dancing' indicates anagramming the letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'nice' after 'lad' is 'ladnice'.
'ladnice' is an anagram of 'ICELAND'.

(Other definitions for iceland that I've seen before include "Former Danish colony" , "Reykjavik's country" , "Its capital is Reykavik" , "European island country" , "Northern country" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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