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Land with straggly weeds to the north (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sweden

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'land' is the definition.
(I know that Sweden is a Scandinavian country)

'straggly weeds to the north' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'weeds' is 'swede' which is present in the answer.
'north' could be 'n' (abbreviation) and 'n' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'with' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for sweden that I've seen before include "Stockholm's country" , "ditto" , "Country with blue and yellow flag" , "We send out to the northern state" , "EU member country" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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