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Inoffensive group's first to enter country (6)

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I believe the answer is:

benign

'inoffensive' is the definition.
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'group's first to enter country' is the wordplay.
'first' suggests taking the first letters.
'to enter' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'country' becomes 'benin' (Benin is an example**).
The first letter of 'group' is 'g'.
'g' placed into 'benin' is 'BENIGN'.

(Other definitions for benign that I've seen before include "Harmless or kind" , "Genial, kindly" , "Kindly or non-malignant" , "Mild and gentle, not malignant" , "Liberal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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