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Meadows outside of Edinburgh with ancient tenure (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leasehold

'tenure' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'meadows outside of edinburgh with ancient' is the wordplay.
'meadows' becomes 'leas' (lea can mean a meadow or field).
'outside of' suggests removing the centre.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'ancient' becomes 'old' (similar in meaning).
'edinburgh' with its centre taken out is 'eh'.
'leas'+'eh'+'old'='LEASEHOLD'

(Other definitions for leasehold that I've seen before include "Form of property tenure" , "Rented land" , "property that's let" , "housing agreement" , "rented property" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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