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Country folk, answering vagrant, love butting in (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

norwegians

'country folk' is the definition.
(people from Norway)

'answering vagrant love butting in' is the wordplay.
'vagrant' is an anagram indicator (vagrant can mean wandering around).
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'butting in' indicates putting letters inside.
'answering' anagrammed gives 'nrwegians'.
'nrwegians' enclosing 'o' is 'NORWEGIANS'.

(Another definition for norwegians that I've seen is " Nationals".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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