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Frantic, the race for amount of land (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hectare

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'amount of land' is the definition.
'hectare' can be an answer for 'land' (I've seen this before). I am not certain of the 'amount of' bit.

'frantic the race' is the wordplay.
'frantic' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'the'+'race'='therace'
'therace' anagrammed gives 'HECTARE'.

'for' acts as a link.

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

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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