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Killer stalks Frenchman in Spanish location (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

minorca

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'spanish location' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'killer stalks frenchman in' is the wordplay.
'killer' becomes 'orc' (I've seen this before).
'stalks frenchman' becomes 'mina' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'orc' put inside 'mina' is 'MINORCA'.

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(Other definitions for minorca that I've seen before include "One of Balearic islands" , "holiday island" , "Balearic island; O, cram in (anag.)" , "Mediterranean island" , "Balearic island (Eng. sp.)" .)

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