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Overlooking loch, visited one area in Scotland (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

caledonia

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'scotland' is the definition.
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'overlooking loch visited one area in' is the wordplay.
'overlooking' suggests deleting specific letters.
'loch' becomes 'l'.
'visited' becomes 'called on' ('call on' can be a synonym of 'visit').
'one area in' becomes 'ia' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'calledon' with 'l' taken away is 'caledon'.
'caledon'+'ia'='CALEDONIA'

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(Other definitions for caledonia that I've seen before include "Old poetic name for Scotland" , "forgotten British region" , "Latin name for northern Britain" , "Roman name for Scotland" , "Lat. name for N. Britain" .)

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