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Cultivation could make it legal (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tillage

'cultivation' is the definition.
(I know that cultivation can be written as tillage)

'make it legal' is the wordplay.
'make' indicates an anagram.
'it'+'legal'='itlegal'
'itlegal' is an anagram of 'TILLAGE'.

'could' is the link.

(Other definitions for tillage that I've seen before include "Farming" , "Working of the soil" , "Cultivation of fields" , "digging" , "Farmers undertake it" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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