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King meets popular singer in the country (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

kenya

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'country' is the definition.
(Kenya is an example)

'king meets popular singer in' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'K' (chess abbreviation).
'meets' says to put letters next to each other.
'popular singer in' becomes 'enya' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'k'+'enya'='KENYA'

'the' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for kenya that I've seen before include "Land" , "Its capital is Nairobi" , "East African republic" , "E African country" , "East African nation" .)

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