Crossword Genius

Italian native travelling around outskirts of Nice (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

venetian

'italian' is the definition.
(Venetian is an example)

'native travelling around outskirts of nice' is the wordplay.
'travelling' indicates anagramming the letters.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' means to remove the middle letters.
'nice' with its middle taken out is 'ne'.
'native' anagrammed gives 'vetian'.
'vetian' placed around 'ne' is 'VENETIAN'.

(Other definitions for venetian that I've seen before include "Blinds from an Italian city" , "Polo, say" , "One like Marco Polo" , "Of a city of canals" , "Like gondolas and blinds, say" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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