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State of an Anglo Saxon uncle (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

assam

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

'an anglo saxon uncle' is the wordplay.
'an anglo saxon' becomes 'as' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'uncle' becomes 'sam' (Uncle Sam is an example).
'as'+'sam'='ASSAM'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for assam that I've seen before include "I'll provide lots of tea" , "State in northeastern India" , "source of tea?" , "State of NE India" , "Top quality tea" .)

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