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Painting rocky place with sand (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

landscape

'painting' is the definition.
(I know that landscape is a type of painting)

'rocky place with sand' is the wordplay.
'rocky' is an anagram indicator.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'place' after 'sand' is 'sandplace'.
'sandplace' is an anagram of 'LANDSCAPE'.

(Other definitions for landscape that I've seen before include "Oil perhaps" , "variety of shot" , "Countryside painting" , "improve grounds" , "Artistic work" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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