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America endlessly razed Black Sea region (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

crimea

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'black sea region' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'america endlessly razed' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'america' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'crime' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for crimea that I've seen before include "part of the Ukraine" , "1853-56 war zone" , "Yalta peninsula" , "old war zone" , "Ukrainian peninsula, site of a 19th century war" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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