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A place of growing importance (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

garden

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'growing importance' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how one could define the other.

'a place' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'place' could be 'den' (den is a kind of place) and 'den' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for garden that I've seen before include "Area round house" , "Cultivate a plot" , "-- City; -- centre" , "Ranged (anag.)" , "nickname of US State" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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