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Land required for city centre layout (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

italy

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'land' is the definition.
(I know that Italy is a peninsula)

'city centre layout' is the wordplay.
'city centre' becomes 'it' (centre of the word 'city').
'layout' becomes 'aly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'it'+'aly'='ITALY'

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(Other definitions for italy that I've seen before include "Laity (anag.)" , "Mediterranean country" , "Country of Bologna, Bari and Brescia" , "where Juventus normally play" , "Barolo wine from here" .)

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