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Middle Eastern country importing endless tat from the south? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

qatari

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'middle eastern' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'country importing endless tat from the south?' is the wordplay.
'country' becomes 'iraq' (Iraq is an example).
'importing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'from the south?' is a reversal indicator (I've seen 'from the south' mean this (in a down clue, letters go up)).
'tat' with its last letter taken away is 'ta'.
'iraq' placed around 'ta' is 'irataq'.
'irataq' written backwards gives 'QATARI'.

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(Other definitions for qatari that I've seen before include "Gulf emirate native" , "One from Doha, say" , "Gulf State native" , "National" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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