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Architect, beastly about large country home? (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nashville

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'country home?' is the definition.
(home of country music)

'architect beastly about large' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'architect' could be 'nash' (I've seen this before) and 'nash' is found within the answer.
'large' could be 'l' (eg in clothes sizes) and 'l' is located in the answer.
'beastly' could be 'vile' (synonyms) and 'vile' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for nashville that I've seen before include "US city" , "Tennessee's capital" , "Centre of country and western" , "country town" , "Where the Grand Ole Opry comes from" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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