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Neat, no energy at all outside the province (5)

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I believe the answer is:

natal

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'province' is the definition.
(I know that Natal is a province)

'neat no energy at all outside the' is the wordplay.
'neat no energy' becomes 'na' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at' says to put letters next to each other.
'outside' means to remove the middle letters.
'the' becomes 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects).
'all' with its middle removed is 'al'.
'al' put after 't' is 'tal'.
'na'+'tal'='NATAL'

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(Other definitions for natal that I've seen before include "Colony once" , "of births" , "dealing with delivery" , "former SA province" , "South African region" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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