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Country has right to mountain range (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rural

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'country' is the definition.
(I know that country can be written as rural)

'right to mountain range' is the wordplay.
'right' becomes 'r' (common abbreviation).
'to' says to put letters next to each other.
'mountain range' becomes 'ural' (the Urals are a Russian mountain range. I am not sure about the 'mountain' bit.).
'r'+'ural'='RURAL'

'has' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for rural that I've seen before include "Relating to the countryside" , "Characteristic of country life" , "Old country fellow" , "Agrestic" , "Countrified" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Guardian.
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