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Lie in a furrow with the hunt milling around (7)

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I believe the answer is:

untruth

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'lie' is the definition.
(an untruth is a lie)

'furrow with the hunt milling around' is the wordplay.
'furrow' becomes 'rut' (synonyms).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'hunt milling' becomes 'unh' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'rut' put after 't' is 'trut'.
'trut' going within 'unh' is 'UNTRUTH'.

'in a' is the link.

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(Other definitions for untruth that I've seen before include "A lie or false statement" , "A genuinely deniable" , "story" , "Fiction" , "product of Orwell's ministry?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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