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Agreement to keep country short of money? It's not true (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unreality

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'not true' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'agreement to keep country short of money?' is the wordplay.
'agreement' becomes 'unity' (I've seen this before).
'to keep' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'country short of money?' becomes 'real' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'unity' placed around 'real' is 'UNREALITY'.

'it's' is the link.

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(Another definition for unreality that I've seen is " (Sense of) fantasy, illusion".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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