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Mountain feature men note being worn by a river (8)

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I believe the answer is:

colorado

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'river' is the definition.
(Colorado is an example)

'mountain feature men note being worn by a' is the wordplay.
'mountain feature men' becomes 'color' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'note' becomes 'do' (musical note, as in do-re-mi).
'being worn by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (outside letters are worn by those on the inside).
'color'+'do'='colordo'
'colordo' going around 'a' is 'COLORADO'.

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(Other definitions for colorado that I've seen before include "Beetle whose larvae destroy potato plants" , "US state (with a beetle)" , "American state, capital Denver" , "in America?" , "US state has a cool road, oddly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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