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Help province up country (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

india

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

'help province up' is the wordplay.
'help' becomes 'aid' (synonyms).
'province' becomes 'ni' (short for Northern Ireland, a province of the UK).
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'aid'+'ni'='aidni'
'aidni' back-to-front is 'INDIA'.

(Other definitions for india that I've seen before include "vast country" , "A Passage to - (E.M. Forster)" , "Part of Asia" , "Type of paper, rubber etc" , "Place of Kipling's birth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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