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Hills, wild and rugged in the Trossachs (4)

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I believe the answer is:

tors

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'hills' is the definition.
(tor is a kind of hill)

'wild and rugged in the trossachs' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ors' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Another definition for tors that I've seen is " High rocky hills".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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