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Letters to an FBI man in Wales (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dyfed

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'wales' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'letters to an fbi man' is the wordplay.
'letters' becomes 'dy' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to an fbi man' becomes 'fed' (I've seen this in another clue).
'dy'+'fed'='DYFED'

'in' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for dyfed that I've seen before include "Old Welsh county" , "Area of Wales" , "part of Wales" , "Carmarthen area?" , "one of the old county set" .)

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