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A poet I fancy receiving greeting in country (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ethiopia

'country' is the definition.
(Ethiopia is an example)

'a poet i fancy receiving greeting' is the wordplay.
'fancy' is an anagram indicator.
'receiving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'greeting' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting).
'a'+'poet'+'i'='apoeti'
'apoeti' with letters rearranged gives 'etopia'.
'etopia' going around 'hi' is 'ETHIOPIA'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for ethiopia that I've seen before include "Landlocked Afr. country" , "Country once known as Abyssinia" , "African state" , "Country formerly called Abyssinia" , "Strife-torn NE African country, capital Addis Ababa" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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