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Wind up around Norway originally from Scandinavia (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

finnish

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'scandinavia' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'wind up around norway originally' is the wordplay.
'wind up' becomes 'finish' (synonyms).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'norway originally' becomes 'n' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'finish' placed around 'n' is 'FINNISH'.

'from' is the link.

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(Other definitions for finnish that I've seen before include "Nationality of citizens of Helsinki" , "race" , "foreign language" , "European language" , "Eg, native to Helsinki" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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