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Prophet cycling over a Pacific location (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

samoa

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'pacific location' is the definition.
'Samoa' can be an answer for 'location' (Samoa is an example). I am not certain of the 'pacific' bit.

'prophet cycling over a' is the wordplay.
'prophet cycling' becomes 'sam' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'over' becomes 'o' (cricket abbreviation).
'sam'+'o'+'a'='SAMOA'

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(Other definitions for samoa that I've seen before include "South-west Pacific nation" , "Group of volcanic islands in the S Pacific" , "Polynesian isle" , "Pacific islands state" , "South Pacific island nation" .)

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