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Small group of farmers entering my land, sacking and jeering (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scornful

'jeering' is the definition.

'small group of farmers entering my land sacking and' is the wordplay.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'group of farmers' becomes 'nfu' (National Farmers' Union).
'entering' is an insertion indicator.
'my' becomes 'cor' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'sacking' is a deletion indicator.
'land' with 'and' taken out is 'l'.
'cor'+'l'='corl'
'nfu' placed inside 'corl' is 'cornful'.
's'+'cornful'='SCORNFUL'

(Other definitions for scornful that I've seen before include "Showing contempt for" , "Openly contemptuous" , "Contemptuous or derisory" , "Disdainful, contemptuous" , "Expressing extreme contempt" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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