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Endless hell with weed in area of land (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hectare

'area of land' is the definition.
(hectare is a unit for measuring land area)

'endless hell with weed' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'hell' becomes 'heck' (interjections!).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'weed' becomes 'tare' (I've seen this before).
'heck' with its final letter taken off is 'hec'.
'hec'+'tare'='HECTARE'

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for hectare that I've seen before include "The race (anag) - unit of area" , "10,000 squaer metres" , "Metric unit of area" , "Teacher of metric land measure" , "Metric land area" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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