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Country song that line-snorting fan's put on (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bulgaria

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

'song that line-snorting fan's put on' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'song' could be 'aria' (piece of music in an opera) and 'aria' is found in the answer.
'line' could be 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem) and 'l' is found in the answer.
'fan' could be 'bug' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'bug' is found within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for bulgaria that I've seen before include "in E" , "Black Sea country" , "Balkan republic" , "Romania's southern neighbour" , "Its capital is Sofia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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