Greet, Scottish style, in the outskirts of Coventry (3)
I believe the answer is:
cry
'greet' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'scottish style in the outskirts of coventry' is the wordplay.
'scottish style' becomes 'r' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only letters on the outskirts).
'coventry' with its middle taken out is 'cy'.
'r' placed into 'cy' is 'CRY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cry that I've seen before include "Shed tears" , "Blubber" , "Don't . . . over spilt milk" , "produce tears" , "Call" .)