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Green meadow on forestry boundaries (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leafy

'green' is the definition.
(green can mean leafy or filled with plants)

'meadow on forestry boundaries' is the wordplay.
'meadow' becomes 'lea' (a lea is a grassy area).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'boundaries' means to remove the middle letters (only the edge or boundary letters remain).
'forestry' with its centre taken out is 'fy'.
'lea'+'fy'='LEAFY'

(Other definitions for leafy that I've seen before include "Like the better class suburbs?" , "With lots of foliage" , "Epithet applied to suburbs" , "more shady places?" , "Green" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail and The Telegraph.
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