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Delivered grass for planting round fields (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

released

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'delivered' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'grass for planting round fields' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'fields' could be 'leas' (I've seen this before) and 'leas' is located in the answer.
'grass' could be 'reed' (I've seen this before) and 'reed' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for released that I've seen before include "Freed from confinement" , "Sent from prison" , "Liberated" , "Let out - let out again" , "free after imprisonment?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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