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A person from America for instance produced, for example, turkey from Alabama (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

national

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'a person' is the definition.
(national is a kind of person)

'turkey from alabama' is the wordplay.
'turkey' becomes 'nation' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'from' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'alabama' becomes 'al'.
'nation'+'al'='NATIONAL'

'from america for instance produced for example' is the link.
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(Other definitions for national that I've seen before include "Relating to a country" , "Owned by the state" , "Major newspaper" , "It's a Grand race at Aintree" , "Relating to the state" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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