Greet, Scottish style, in the outskirts of Coventry (3)
I believe the answer is:
cry
'greet' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'scottish style in the outskirts of coventry' is the wordplay.
'scottish style' becomes 'r' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in the' is an insertion indicator.
'outskirts of' means to remove the middle letters (only letters on the outskirts).
'coventry' with its centre removed is 'cy'.
'r' put within 'cy' is 'CRY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cry that I've seen before include "Shed tears" , "Blubber" , "Don't . . . over spilt milk" , "produce tears" , "Call" .)