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Belgian defence finally forgiven after scoreless draw? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

walloon

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'belgian' is the definition.
(Walloons are an ethnic group of Wallonia, Belgium)

'defence finally forgiven after scoreless draw?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'defence' could be 'wall' (wall is a kind of defence) and 'wall' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'oon' 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 walloon that I've seen before include "Southern Belgian" , "Native of S Belgium or N France area" , "French-speaking Belgian" , "Francophone" , "European" .)

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