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River source really central (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ural

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'river' is the definition.
(Russian river)

'source really central' is the wordplay.
'source' becomes 'ur' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'central' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'really' is 'al'.
'ur'+'al'='URAL'

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(Other definitions for ural that I've seen before include "Europe/Asia river" , "Mountain range between Europe and Asia" , "Russian river, rising in the mountains between Europe and Asia" , "The - mountains separate Asia and Europe" , "Russian river giving name to mountains" .)

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