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Country man consumes starter of partridge (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nepal

'country' is the definition.
(Nepal is an example)

'man consumes starter of partridge' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'neal' ().
'consumes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'starter of' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'partridge' is 'p'.
'neal' enclosing 'p' is 'NEPAL'.

(Other definitions for nepal that I've seen before include "Gurkha homeland" , "Himalayan country" , "Himalayan state" , "Himalayan kingdom" , "somewhere in Asia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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