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Privately owned island in clear-up after resettlement (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

peculiar

'privately owned' is the definition.
(peculiar can mean belonging to or associated with)

'island in clear-up after resettlement' is the wordplay.
'island' becomes 'i'.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'after resettlement' indicates an anagram.
'clear'+'up'='clearup'
'clearup' with letters rearranged gives 'pecular'.
'i' put inside 'pecular' is 'PECULIAR'.

(Other definitions for peculiar that I've seen before include "Unusual" , "'Strange, odd (8)'" , "Odd - individual" , "I clear up, being odd" , "Extraordinary" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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