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Commotion with gull circling field next to river (6)

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I believe the answer is:

meadow

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'field next to river' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'commotion with gull circling' is the wordplay.
'commotion with' becomes 'ado' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gull' becomes 'mew gull' (mew is a kind of gull).
'circling' means one lot of letters goes inside another (circling can mean going around or containing).
'ado' placed within 'mew' is 'MEADOW'.

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(Other definitions for meadow that I've seen before include "Hayfield" , "Low-lying grassland" , "Pasture" , "In rural location" , "Lea" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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