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Folly of girl crossing North America (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lunacy

'folly' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'girl crossing north america' is the wordplay.
'girl' becomes 'lucy' (**).
'crossing' is an insertion indicator.
'north america' becomes 'na'.
'lucy' enclosing 'na' is 'LUNACY'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for lunacy that I've seen before include "Madness, insanity" , "Tomfoolery" , "Foolishness" , "Craziness, madness" , "Moon madness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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