Country sport greatly missed in odd places (5)
I believe the answer is:
rural
'country' is the definition.
(I know that country can be written as rural)
'sport greatly missed in odd places' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'sport' could be 'ru' (rugby union) and 'ru' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rural that I've seen before include "Countrified" , "Characteristic of country life" , "Sort of dean" , "Countrylike" , "Of the country - pastoral" .)