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Island left by territorials touring a country (5)

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I believe the answer is:

haiti

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'a country' is the definition.
(Haiti is a country)

'island left by territorials touring' is the wordplay.
'island' becomes 'ait' (term for a small island).
'left by territorials' becomes 'hi' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'touring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (touring can mean going round).
'ait' going into 'hi' is 'HAITI'.

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(Other definitions for haiti that I've seen before include "West Indies country associated with voodoo" , "Republic sharing WI isle" , "Caribbean state" , "I hit a West Indian island" , "Western part of island discovered by Columbus in 1492" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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