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Country road below zero in winter month (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

jordan

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

'road below zero in winter month' is the wordplay.
'road' becomes 'rd' (abbreviation).
'below' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'zero' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'winter month' becomes 'Jan' (short for January).
'rd' after 'o' is 'ord'.
'ord' put inside 'jan' is 'JORDAN'.

(Other definitions for jordan that I've seen before include "Biblical river or Middle East country" , "large flower" , "Nation" , "Middle East kingdom" , "Arab kingdom" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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