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Din about Scot acquiring nationality (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

indian

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'nationality' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'din about scot acquiring' is the wordplay.
'about' is an anagram indicator.
'scot' becomes 'ian'.
'acquiring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'din' with letters rearranged gives 'ndi'.
'ndi' put into 'ian' is 'INDIAN'.

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(Other definitions for indian that I've seen before include "From Kolkata, perhaps" , "National" , "IDA inn provided for this notionality" , "American originally" , "IDA inn provides for this nationality" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror and The Daily Express.
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