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Northerner, large bounder tucking into cooked rice (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

icelander

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'northerner' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'large bounder tucking into cooked rice' is the wordplay.
'large bounder' becomes 'eland' (type of antelope - something which bounds around. I am not sure about the 'large' bit.).
'tucking into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'rice' anagrammed gives 'icer'.
'eland' going inside 'icer' is 'ICELANDER'.

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(Other definitions for icelander that I've seen before include "National" , "Eg a person from Reykjavik" , "Northern European" , "northerner" , "North Atlantic dweller" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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