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Bomb from this country in North East (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nuke

'bomb' is the definition.
(nuking is a kind of bombing)

'this country in north east' is the wordplay.
'this country' becomes 'uk' (from the perspective of a British newspaper).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'north east' becomes 'ne'.
'uk' put inside 'ne' is 'NUKE'.

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for nuke that I've seen before include "Nuclear weapon (sl.)" , "Attack with an atomic weapon" , "Drop huge bomb on" , "Destroy with a very powerful 18" , "Attack with H-bomb (slang abbr.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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